On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own > partition. I created /dev/hda8 and made an ext2 file sys there. > I then mounted /dev/hda8 on /mnt, and issued 'cp -rp /home/* /mnt' > > This looked good, so I changed /etc/fstab to reflect this new home > for /home, and rebooted. > > I'm happy in my new /home, but I want to clean out my old /home. > 'df -h /' still shows a full file sys, yet 'du -hs /home' shows over > 2M. I'm assuming that 2M is still hiding under / somewhere, > but how do I get at it?
Unmount /dev/hda8 (best done in the singel user mode, init 1), the old (hiden) content of /home will show up and can be deleted with rm /home/* -rf, then mount again /dev/hda8 on /home. Martin -- For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
