On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 15:56 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > Fernando Costa wrote: > > I have the /home on its own partition, but I need to move it to the root > > partition without losing data, which is the safest way to do that? My > > root partition is about 20G and the /home partition is about 8G and less > > than 1G is used because I store my data in a different partition. > > > > openSUSE 10.2 > > Lots of advice about how to do this from various people, so let me be > contrarian :) > > Don't do it. > > I believe it's much better to have too many filesystems rather than too > few. You don't say what your real problem is - I guess you're trying to > recover the 8 GB? So copy the contents of /home into the root partition > temporarily, reformat the 8 GB as LVM space and then recreate /home as a > logical volume. > > BTW, your root partition is way too big, IMHO. I'd have about 2 GB for > root and put the other 18 GB into LVM with /usr, /var, /opt in their own > logical filesystems. If you're using ext3 or reiserfs (don't know about > others), you can then grow them as needed. > > I'd make all changes while running some other system (e.g. a live disk > like Bob Kline suggested). I always keep my previous system in another 2 > GB partition for this sort of work. > > Cheers, Dave
Hi Dave, Fernando, I agree with keeping as many seperate file systems as possible If something "boils over" it can only fill one partition (being it /home, /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/spool, /var/log or what ever) Gives you also the freedom to tune it differently (many small files, a buch of large iso's) Using it and LVM (with reiser, ext2, ext3) for quite a while. You can grow them online and shrink them offline. Only exception personally, is for temporary test installations, (just /) Keep important files (data, config, xml-descriptions) somewhere else, like on a mounted smb- or nfs-share. Hans -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
