I've done this with /var several times. boot to single user mode, prep the new /home partition, cp it all over there (-r at a minimum), umount the old mount the new edit /etc/fstab reboot
and you're /home free... On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 08:53, Justin Bengtson wrote: > okay, so my sister's come over last night to use the $75 (my cost. > somewhere near $200 retail) worth of soap making supplies i got them for > christmas. now my kitchen floor (and the living room carpet of all > things...) is sudsy. > > anyway, got redhat 7.2 installed and my backups are done. i have a 40gb > drive waiting for partitions. i want to move my current /home to the 40gb > drive. is there a way to do this other than a reinstall? can i just edit > fstab? > > for those who care, this frees up space for distro development, which i will > get started on again in a couple of days (once the SO is through the "i miss > you" phase...") -- Christopher Maujean IT Director, Premierelink Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.premierelink.com/ 541-344-8575x305 PGP: --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.keyserver.net/ KeyID: EFAF4176 Fingerprint: 55E6 4DE1 D7D3 361E F265 C094 46F2 7B62 EFAF 4176 ---------------------------------------------------------------
