--- Bob Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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) ....
>
> Wouldn't it be even safer to boot from a live CD?
I had the opposite problem a few days ago: I had to
move /home off the root partition and onto a new
partition.
Since I have two Linux systems installed, I can use
the one to modify the other. I have 9.0 on a logical
partition on hda and 10.2 on a logical partition on
hdb.
When I installed 10.2 last week, I inadvertantly ended
up with /home on the root partition. Not knowing what
to do, I proceeded one step at a time, checking each
result.
Using the 9.0 system:
* I mounted the two 10.2 partitions, hdb5 and hdb6.
* I copied the 10.2 /home subdirectories from hdb5
(root) to hdb6 (new home)
* I renamed 10.2 /home to /home_hdb5, to preserve the
the original subdirectories (for recovery)
* I created a new 10.2 /home to serve as a mount-point
for 10.2 fstab
* I made sure that the 10.2 fstab entry used hdb6
Much to my surprise, 10.2 survived and is now working
fine, with the new /home.
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