Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > [farli@tesla farli]$ df
> > Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1              1718336    246440   1384608  15% /
> > /dev/hdb1                 5823      1085      4438  20% /boot
> > /dev/hda6              1154808    128120    968024  12% /home
> > /dev/hdb3              1898964   1327036    475464  74% /usr 
> > 
> > I am soon going to upgrade from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.0.  Is there an easy way 
> > to expand the /usr partition at the expense of either the root partition 
> > or the home partition?
>  
> Yes, you can[snip]

Erg.. I didn't notice that you have two different disks.  In that
case, no, I don't think there is an easy way to do your expansion
other than with the symlink hack.

The LVM code *will* do disk spanning, but that requires some
reformatting and the like and you already said that you can't backup
your work.
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