On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:26:10 +0100, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
Well a
cp -a -u -v /home /mnt/hdb7
will do the trick smoothly while letting you check what's moving on.
Of course you need to have created & formated hdb7, with enough space for
the operation ;)
--
Salutations,
kozaki
[~] > Arch, Mandrake~iva x86_64 & Ubuntu Linux
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Et puis Linux, c'est bien sympa, mais la personne qui pleure quand ce
qu'il faut faire est plus compliqué que double cliquer sur une icone, elle
fait comment ?
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