Resizing partitions

Kurt Granroth plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:28:27 -0700


Carl Parrish wrote:
> >> Without resizing, your best bet may be to just create a bunch of
> >> symlinks.  So, for instance, move all of /usr/share (just an example)
> >> to /space/share and do a 'ln -s /space/share /usr/share'
> > 
> Continuning with this example after moving (mv /usr/share/* 
> /space/share/ )  should I instead set the link to /usr (ln -s 
> /space/share /usr ) If I understand it  correctly that would create a 
> share dir symbolic link under /usr which is what I want right? Or am I 
> not understanding this correctly?
 
Yes.  This should about do it:

% mkdir /space
% mv /usr/share /space/
% ln -s /space/share /usr
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