02-08-2002
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"had not given /usr it's own partition" This is always a matter of choice. /usr does not have to be it's own partition. Putting /usr on a second disk may be more confusing than leaving it where it is. If you were moving /var to a different disk, not as bad but to move /usr requires you boot up off of a cdrom into single user.
"The www files are all under /usr" Are they under /usr in their own directory? If so, that is what you should move to it's own partition (leaving /usr where it is). If they are in /usr/www/, then boot into single user and tar the /usr/www/* and put it on the second disk. Then create a link from /usr/www to the new directory on the second disk (/www). This is also better for security reasons not to have the web pages (and cgi-scripts) loaded on /usr. You probably don't have to change the Apach config files at all for this (although that is also easy enough)