system disks

[ddm at mclinux.com (Derek Martin)]

On Fri, 26 May 2000, David Kramer wrote:

> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Scott Lanning wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Malloy wrote:
> > >Does anyone have a suggestion for a way to make the system think
> > >there is more space (I do have free space on other partitions)?
> > >
> > >I know there is a way mount another file system and do a link.
> > >I just don't know the exact formula to get this to work.
> > 
> > Make free partition a linux partition with fdisk, then
> > 
> > mount /new/partition/ /mount/point/
> > (probably want to add /etc/fstab entry)
> > 
> > mv /old/directory /mount/point/
> > ln -s /mount/point/ /old/directory/
> > 
> > man mount, man ln for details
> 
> This might not work because mv will not work across filesystems.  You have
> to cp then rm.  

This is not true. The mv command has (or perhaps had) that limitation on
commercial Unix systems, but the mv command on Linux has no such
limitation.


-- 
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
martin at MissionCriticalLinux.com 

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