recommendation for adjusting contents of root filesystem

[Lonni J Friedman]

That should be safe to do.  Although I'm not sure what you're
accomplishing by backing up a partition that has no data on it.  Is it
really faster to recover from a USB stick than to reinstall the OS?

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Dan Martin <dc.martin at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I recently installed a Suse SLES11 system.
> I used a small boot filesystem, a "small" root filesystem (8GB), and
> I used lvm2 for  /u   and   /srv  filesystems.
>
> I limited the size of the root filesystem because I wanted to be able to
> backup all of the root file system to an 8GB USB stick.
>
> Now, usage of the root filesystem is over 90%.
>
> The following directories all reside in the root filesystem:  /tmp
> /var
> /usr
>
> I would like to like to recursively copy one or more of  /var,  /usr,  and
>  /tmp
> to    /u   so that they will be on a different filesystem; then remove them
> from
> the root filesystem; then   sym link them back so that they  appear in the
> same path.
>
> Is it safe to do this?  Do I run the risk of breaking anything at boot time
> that
> might be expecting a file to be available in the root filesystem?  That is,
> before
> the   /u   filesystem is mounted?
>
> Thank you,
> Dan Martin
>
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