On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:11:27 +0000 Randy Orrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jacob S. wrote: > much good advice. Just a couple little tips that might make things > easier: > > > Once you're satisfied that everything's > > on /new_home, "rm -r /home" (Note: there's no turning back after you > > enter that command... double and triple check that things are like > > you want before you delete the old /home), > > If you have enough space on your root partition (assuming that's where > > /home was) to leave the original /home directory and files around for > a while, you can just > # mv /home /home.old > # chmod 0 home.old > before you > # mkdir /home > That will keep the files around, but prevent anything from using them. > > > It can also be done without using a boot floppy/cd, but it's a lot > > harder because you are deleting files that might be in use currently > > for any users that are logged in, etc. The use of a boot floppy/cd > > is strongly recommended! > > # telinit s > will bring the system to single user mode and shut down most services. > # lsof | grep /home > will tell you if any processes have files open in /home (you might > need to apt-get install lsof) > # telinit 2 > will bring it back up to multi-user mode > > That's one of the (many) nice things about Linux -- you rarely need to > > reboot for normal maintainance. > > Randy > thanks to all of you. it seemed a trifle risky initially but turned out just fine. thanks to your combined help the migration has been achieved. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
