Move system directory

Furlinastis · 08-16-2020, 08:08 PM

How would i move /usr/share to /home/share?

/dev/sda1 is root but /dev/sdb4 is /home.

/dev/sda has 16gb and is full. The best way i could figure to make space is to move share. so i mv /usr/share /home then ln -s /home/share /usr/share.

But now my system is borked. Any ideas?

upnort · 08-16-2020, 08:44 PM

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Any ideas?

Undo the previous move and link and then solve why the disk is full.

crts · 08-16-2020, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Furlinastis

But now my system is borked. Any ideas?

Ideas for what exactly? To make your system bootable again, i.e., revert the mv? To make your idea work?
My guess would be that you might need /usr/share during the boot process but your /home is not mounted yet.

Look for hints in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages.

Alternatively, rebuild your system with a bigger root partition (Backup data first).

Furlinastis · 08-17-2020, 12:33 AM

I dont have the option to make root drive bigger. I guess i could back up and reformat my home drive with a usr partition, i just thought there would be another way.

everything in usr/share is there. Although, im reading you should use rsync and not mv.

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My guess would be that you might need /usr/share during the boot process but your /home is not mounted yet.

Yea, its definitely mounting late in the boot cycle.

It does boot, but there are anomolies, like icons missing. I just figured i cant be the first person to run out of space and instead of buying a new drive , simply move a folder.

Tonus · 08-17-2020, 01:10 AM

You could use gparted to resize everything. I just made a huge move and resize of all partitions on a system and it workd well. Just be aware the uuid will change (check fstab for instance).