Re: [cobalt-users] chmod on usr

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Bruce Timberlake wrote:

> > My / (root) is 99% full.  I want to just create a directory under
> > /home partition and then copy everything from /usr to there and
> > symlink /home/usr to /usr.  Ok that is easy enough but does
> > /home/usr/ and the link /usr have to have any specail permissions?
> > if so what would the chmod command be foreach?
>
> Be _very_ careful doing this, as Perl and most other important things
> live someplace under /usr!  But it should be possible...
>
> What have you installed on the system that's filled / up so much??
> Can you move something else under /home besides the entire /usr dir??
>

You might use steve bassi script that moves /usr/local to /home/local

Gerald
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