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It's 26 Nov 97  13:38,
We'll return to dstanawa@mail.usyd.edu.au and All's
discussion of A quick config query.

 ds> I would like to move my /usr directory to a new filesystem, and mount
 ds> it onto the root filesystem on startup.

 ds> Are there any warnings that people would like to share.

What you have to be careful about is that your /usr tree is accessible
at all times during this process, otherwise strange things may occur
(like commands not being found when needed).

The process I use goes something like:

Mount the new /usr partition somewhere on the filesystem, e.g.

mount -t ext2fs /dev/hdd1 /mnt/tmp

Next, copy the /usr tree to the new partition:

cp -ar /usr/* /mnt/tmp  (make sure you use the -ar options here!)

Finally, unmount the new /usr from /mnt/tmp.  You can do a test mount by
mounting it over the top of the old /usr tree and see if all is well.
Otherwise, you can simply rename the old /usr directory and mount the
new one in its place.

e.g. mv /usr /oldusr
mkdir /usr
mount -t ext2fs /dev/hdd1 /usr

Now, confirm all is OK, and if it is, you can rm -rf /oldusr (I'd leave
this step until the system has been running a while, just in case you
slipped somewhere :) ).

 ds> Also
 ds> In what script and where in the script should I mount the device on
 ds> /usr in /etc/rc.d
 ds> (I have Redhat 4.1)

Make an entry in /etc/fstab, so /usr is mounted automatically at boot
time.  You can use the X based control panel can do this if you like.

 ds> And just for the record (I doubt it is relevant)
 ds> it is a quantum fireball 420Mb drive and it is the secondary slave,
 ds> and has one primary partition which is an ext2 filesystem.

Only relevant piece of information is the drive being a secondary slave
and having one partition.  That makes your new partition /dev/hdd1 (note
I used this in my examples :) ).

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