Moving to a new partition for /usr

[Karl Larsen]

John Pierce wrote:
> Hello, I have created a new partition labeled usr01 and I want to copy
> all of the contents of /usr to that partition and then use it as the
> new partition.  This is the steps that I have taken, I would
> appreciate any comments if what I propose will function correctly.
>
> Installed new drive
>   
What new drive?
> made partition labeled usr01
> mounted new partition on /mnt
> cd /usr
> cp -R --preserve=all * /mnt
>
>   
    I would use cp -a and that works fine
> That is what I have done so far, now if I do the following will the
> system boot up and work correctly?
>
> umount /mnt
> edit /etc/fstab and make the new partition /dev/sdb1 mount to /usr
> reboot.
>
>   
Your leaving out some important steps. I am not sure what your rebooting?



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