i had hda2 mounted at /usr/local
seeing as hda2 was only 46mb
i wanted to move it to hda3 which is 5gig and has a mount piont of /
so i "cp -a /usr/local /usr/local.new"
then i closed the programs running from usr/local
then "umount /usr/local"
removed the refrence in fstab
then when i tried to " mv /usr/local.new /usr/local"
i got /usr/local/local.new,
so now im trying to move local.new to local
i remounted hda2 to /stuff
and in df -h i get
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 5.8G 2.7G 2.8G 48% /
/dev/hda1 3.2G 20k 3.0G 1% /home/site
/dev/hda2 46M 46M 0 100% /stuff
it shows that its still a full drive, does that mean the stuff in usr/local hasent moved yet ?
how can i move fix this,
all i want is usr/local to be on hda3
please help

You didn't move anything from hda2, you copied.

so how can i fix this ?

Try:

rm /usr/local/local
cp -R /stuff/* /usr/local

Don't use mv, because it doesn't save any time when moving between partitions, and if it doesn't work, the stuff on hda2 would have been deleted.

ahh it worked
cheers