Comments on: Moving /usr to another partition

By: dvdsev

dvdsev — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:32:18 +0000

Thanks a lot. It worked like a charm

By: phirefly

phirefly — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:17:15 +0000

A real easy way to do it is through gparted live (or any other liveCD).
And don’t forget chown -R root /usr

By: Spica

Spica — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:07:02 +0000

Thanks! I was trying to do this some time ago and your howto works very well on my Eeepc 701, Easy Peasy 1.6 flavor.

By: mmp

mmp — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:23:44 +0000

perfectly working on a eeepc 701 with jolicloud/ubuntu 9.10.
maybe you just forgot mkdir /usr_old but a minor issue
thanks!

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.