On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 08:21 -0800, Pilgrim wrote: > I have all of Arch installed on a single partition right now. That happens to > be > /dev/hdb8 (10GB). I would like to move the /home directory to /dev/hdb7 > (17GB). Both > are > formatted ext3. As I understand it, "dd", isn't the right tool for this, > because > I'm not moving a complete partition, right? So, my question is, is it as > simple as > doing a copy (cp -r /dev/hdb8/home /dev/hdb7), editing the fstab file, and > then > rebooting? >
I'd do (cp -a /home/* /mnt/hdb7) and change fstab/reboot instead. This will preserve permissions and linked files too. Dale _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
