kozaki.dev wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:26:10 +0100, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 08:21 -0800, Pilgrim wrote:
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>>>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.
>>
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>
>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 ;)
>
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>
sounds like an awful lot of work, i'd just mount the new disc to some 
random folder and mv /home/* /random/folder  then add a line to the 
fstab to auto mount the new partition to /home

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