symlink for /usr/

[David J Patrick]

I have 60gig of HD broken up into many partitions.
A while ago, I successfully moved the contents of my /home/ directories 
by plunking symlinks to another (10gig hda8) partition but the good 
times have come to an end and now my root partition (6 gig hda6) is FULL !
Yes, I'm aware, that's a potentail BAD thing.
Is there any reason why I couldn't just move the contents of /usr/ to 
another partition and similarly symlink ?
Is there a strong argument for doing it the right way ? editing fstab to 
point to mount /usr/ at another location ?
I was bitten last time I tried it.
Of course, this operation will have to be performed under the anesthetic 
of knoppix.
Got any better ideas ?
thanks,
djp



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