HELP needed urgently!

Hi,

I have a big problem.
I have a root partition of 12 GB, a separate home partition and a spare partition. Today the root partition got filled up and in order to create room I decided to activate the spare partition as the /usr sub part.

So I mounted the spare partition on /mnt and did
cp -a /usr/* /mnt

When finished I edited fstab to have the spare partition mounted as /usr. I moved /usr to /usr1 and mounted the spare partition as /usr. This worked fine and I worked on for a couple of hours at work.

This evening the system entered into a (how is it called) shell, where I had to enter the passwd for root (luckily I enabled root after install). The new /usr partition was mounted but the encrypted home partition (with luksOpen and mapper) was not ready. Also no network devices were configured. I managed to get the encrypted partition mounted and had some trouble with the network, but I got finally to write this mail.

How come I have this problem now (since /usr was correctly mounted) and most of all, can you give me a solution real fast please!

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