Need to move parition

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Right now I really don't care about elegance - I just need to get the stuff 
off that disk and replace it <G>.   A symlink it is then.

Next problem is how to move the swap partition.  I assume I can run without 
a swap for a period of time while I install a new disk and parition it.  If 
so how do I disable it?

Thanks.



Net Llama! wrote:

> Yea, you can't really mount /home within /usr, since it violates laws of
> space & time.  But you could always create a symlink:
> /home -> /usr/home
> 
> which would do what you want, somewhat unelegantly.
> 
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> I'm running Caldera 3.1 WS with three scsi drives.  One drive (sdb) is
>> going bad.  I moved /var from /dev/sdb4 to /var on my root partition
>> (/dev/sda1) and that worked - except cups doesn't print anymore but I'll
>> fix that later.
>> 
>> I have /home on /dev/sdb3 and need to move it somewhere else.  It won't
>> fit
>> on any partition but /dev/sda2 which is currently mounted as /usr.    I
>> went to the SxS and the man pages.  Is there anyway I can copy /home to
>> say
>> /usr/home and then mount it as /home?  I tried various forms of mount and
>> can't make it work.  I don't have spare partitions on this system to use
>> either.  I just need to keep it running until I can get my RH 7.3 system
>> delivered and installed.
>> 
>> My swap partition is also on the bad drive but I don't have anywhere to
>> move it.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
> 
> 

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