[plug] linking to different drives

[russ]

The only concern I have with this method is that your stuck with fixed
partition sizes for /usr and /home. 

Which I guess can be a good or bad thing. :)


> > Steve Baker wrote:
> > >
> > > Russ,
> > >
> > > You would be better off putting your /usr directory onto the second hard
> > > drive, on another partition.  This is a much cleaner way than lots of
> > > symbolic links, although the links do come in handy on occasion for doing
> > > this type of thing.  You can then free up that space on your first drive.
> > > Is /usr in it's own partition at the moment?  Or is it just hanging off the
> > > / filesystem?
Kenworthy Family wrote:
> 
> I recently added a new HD after I filled the old one up.  Formatted into two e2fs
> partitions, copied /usr to /usrnew on one and /home to /homenew.  Shut down to
> runlevel 1 and renamed the old /usr and /home, mounted the new HD and renamed the
> directories.  Unmounted the HD and rebooted.  Mounted automaticaly on bootup
> (manually setup fstab before booting), no errors or problems.  Left it a few days
> before deleting the old directories just in-case but turned out never needed them
> again.