[97286] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Out of space on the root system!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emmanuel Papirakis)
Mon Nov 2 12:58:41 1998
From: "Emmanuel Papirakis" <epapirakis@hotmail.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:53:59 PST
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Hey,
If I where you, I'd move some files in your /usr partition, and make a
sym link. The reason that Linux won't let you move a directory throw a
file system (or from partition to partition) is that it won't move
directorys recursivly. When you do so in the same partition, it just
changes one of it's internal pointers to inodes.
The answer is tar. Let's say I want to move my /opt in /usr and want lo
make a sym link:
tar zcfv /opt.tgz /opt
mv /opt.tgz /usr
cd /usr
tar zxfvp opt.tgz
ln -s /usr/opt /opt
This should work just fine.
Papi
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