On Mon, December 12, 2005 9:00 am, Rickard Eriksson 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. >>> >>> >> > 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 >
Wouldn't (cp -a /home/* /new/home) be the better choice, in case of errors I'd still have the original /home to fall back on? _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
