Comments on: Moving /usr to another partition

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:30:30 +0000

Great

Thanks for that, really helped

By: mattgerg

mattgerg — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:16:59 +0000

Excellent! This saved the day for me!

By: woamba

woamba — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:11:18 +0000

1. “cp -a” is equivalent to “cp -dpR”

2. imho, the star is not required, i.e. instead of
“cp -dpR /usr/* /usr_new/”

it should be possible to use this:

“cp -a /usr /usr_new”

By: hyperdanja » Blog Archive » links for 2008-11-12

hyperdanja » Blog Archive » links for 2008-11-12 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:01:59 +0000

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By: hyperdanja » Blog Archive » Machine Admin - Ubuntu, dead HD, EeePC space, USB stick backups etc.

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:55:42 +0000

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By: Swistak

Swistak — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:06:39 +0000

Thank you for suggesting that hwclock may read locale settings. It helped me find a better solution.
Please see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3319217 if you are interested in details.

By: Swistak

Swistak — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:05:22 +0000

Well, the hwclock script is run every time I boot, but for some reason it fails. I changed the name of a symlink in /etc/rcS.d from S11hwclock.sh to S38hwclock.sh, so that it is run after mounting /usr. It works fine until a update is performed. It reverts the change I made.

By: Anshul

Anshul — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:25:34 +0000

Nope, I don’t recall a hardware clock issue. Is the clock set every time you boot? And it can’t find your locale settings? Maybe its different in 7.04

By: Swistak

Swistak — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:23:10 +0000

Did you experience any problems with hardware clock? After moving /usr in Ubuntu 7.04 it turned out that the clock is set before mounting /usr. It causes improper time settings every time you reboot.

By: menthol

menthol — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:34:49 +0000

Thank you for this, very clear. You just made my Gentoo system useable again.