On Sunday 17 June 2007 22:45, Mohammad Bhuyan wrote: > Hi, > > > I have the /home on its own partition, but I need to move it to the root > > partition without losing data, > > I am not an expert but I was thinking if the following should work > > 1. To be on the safe side get out of x (ex: init 3) > 2. Recursive copy /home to a new directory under root (ex: /to_be_home) > 3. Get rid of the mount entry of /home from mtab/fstab (leave backup copy) > 4. unmount /home (Possible?) > 5. Rename /to_be_home to /home > 6. Reboot (Ex: init 6) > > This will leave your original /home partition unmounted but with all the > data. > > Lets see what the expert says. > > Regards, > > Mohammad
Thanks Mohammad, magic word Recursive made me to look again in my first post to find 2 errors in 5 lines of my version how to move home :-( -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
