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From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: help me please??????
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, f.johan.beisser wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, chia an wrote:
>
> > i want to move 500MB from root partition to /usr, i
> > dont know how, any ideas, please help me?
>
> sure, either you use growfs(8), or rebuild the machine.
>
> i would suggest adding a disk, and moving /usr on to it, since that's
> easier than dealing with growfs.

growfs can't shrink partitions; so taking 500MB off an existing root
slice is not possible without jinking around with backups & restores or
spare drives.

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