if you are open to the idea of creating different partitions for
different directories...(which you seem to be..)
then this shouldn't be impossible..

all that you need to do is create for eg. a 5 Gb partition (from the
19Gb and format it as ext3). then copy all your /home stuff verbatim to
the new partition as "/" .. i.e. 
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdx /mnt/temp
cp /home/* /mnt/temp -R
umount /mnt/temp
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdx /home
(your old /home is now temporarily unavailable.. but you can always
regain it by rebooting it to "root" and copying that directory into
something else like home-old etc...)

i am a learner too.
i have tried this and it works.
but i'd suggest that if its very critical data, you wait for half a day
for anyone on the list to respond to this email if there is something
drastically wrong with this..
but i think it should work fine...

affly
rbs

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 02:04, Viksit Gaur wrote:
> Hi!



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