Not sure what exactly you are wanting to accomplish by coping data to the same partition it already lives on, but the problem is the way you're going about it. Think of /home as "d:" on a windows box and everything else lives on "c:" That's because of the way you have things laid out.

So, you don't copy /home to /home.cp, but cp each of the user folders from /home/<username> to /home/<username>.cp to keep them on the same partition.

Since I have lots of space available on /dev/sda6,
I'd like to copy /home (which is on /dev/sda6 to
home.cp on that same sda6 drive.

But when I tried (as root) to do this:

# cp -rp /home /home.cp

I got an "out of space" error message because the
copy was being made onto /dev/sda1.

So, what syntax can I use to copy /home to /home.cp on /dev/sda6 ?


/dev/sda1              12G  5.7G  5.6G  51% /
tmpfs                 473M     0  473M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6             168G   23G  146G  14% /home



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