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  From: Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  To  : MIG <khaey001@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au>
  Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:43:54 +0930 (CST)

Re: Standarts/Conventions for /usr & /home as mounted dirs

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, MIG wrote:

> 
> Hi everybody
> 
> I want my /usr and /home to be separate partitions mounted instead of
> directories. Is there any standart or problem doing that? ie I copy all
> stuff from /usr onto another partition and then mount it on /usr. Are
> there any files in /usr that are needed before fstab is processed?
> 
> I could just go on and try it but I only have one computer and I needed it
> for my studies so right now I can't afford time to fiddle with it too
> much if I screw up.

Yep there is no reason why you can't do this. There should be no programs
on usr that are needed before fstab. Just make sure you copy across the
permissions and the ownership.
ie:

cd /oldusr
tar cpf . | (cd /newusr && tar xvpf -)

Then setup the entries in fstab as required.
Cheers,

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* Benjamin Close
* Benjsc@senet.com.au
* Web Page: http://users.senet.com.au/~benjsc

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