[CLUE-Tech] Moving data between partitions?

[David Anselmi]

Ed Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 09:49, Lynn Danielson wrote:
> 
> Lynn should get the "best support answer" on this thread, IMNSHO.

Well, I'll vote for that.  But from the root partition, what can you 
move and link?

Not these:

bin
dev
etc
lib
lost+found
proc
root
sbin

You can move these to other partitions:

boot
cdrom
floppy
home
mnt
opt
tmp
usr
var

The reason is that when init starts, only the root partition is mounted 
(usually read-only).  So until you get other things mounted the boot 
scripts can only use what's in root.  Also, in case of a crash that you 
recover from in single user mode the things you need should be in /.

Of the things you can move, /usr, /var, /opt, and /home are the only 
ones likely to get you much space, and if Jeff has one of those taking 
up space on / he could definately use Lynn's trick.

Of course in other partitions Lynn's trick works pretty well.  I'm sure 
Jeff already knows all this but I wanted to make it clear for those who 
might not.

Dave