Re: Merging /home partition into / partition

[Stefan Wold <s wold wineasy se>]

First make a new temporary dir "mkdir /newhome" for example. Then mount
your new drive harddrive to /newhome. Then to be sure you really get the
right permissions, first change dir to your old home (/home) then issue
this command: "tar -cpf - *|(cd /newhome; tar -xvf -)" Then check that all
files and permissions where transfered to /newhome from /home. After that
change the mountpoint for /dev/sdb1 in your /etc/fstab file so it now
points on /home instead of /dev/sda4. Either you reboot or manually do the
mounting so you get sdb1 to /home.


Sincerely
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Anurag Jalan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On my server's 1st hard drive I have 3 non-swap partions
>
> / sda             ( 63 % used )
> /boot            ( 6 % used )
> /home  sda4 ( 73 % used )
>
> I want to move my /home to a new HD /dev/sdb
> I partitioned /dev/sdb into a single partition /dev/sdb1
> Mounted /mnt/disk2/home on /dev/sdb1 in fstab
> did a cp -a /home/* /mnt/disk2/home/
>
> At this point i am getting stuck :(
> /home contains all my SAMBA and Apache directories .
> I want to merge the present /home partition with / .
> I tried to rm -r /home and create a link :
> ln -s /mnt/disk2/home /home , but Linux says, that /home is
> not a file or directory .. what should I do ?
>
> Regards
> Anurag
>
>
>
>
>
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