Mirabella, Mathew J said: > Thanks. > > SO i assume you are saying make a dir in / for the old data called > /home.old but ... > umount /home > means that /home is no longer accessible? so how can you cp into it with > cp -a /home.old/* /home/
you unmount it, and re mount it at the new location /home.old > > My assumption is... and correct me if i am wrong... when there is a dir in > / whether it has been unmounted or just created... it is there, and the > only thing that mounting does is to allow you to gain access to a > different partition or storage device via that directory. a mount point is just a directory, nothing special about it ..and it can be anywhere, for me it's just habbit to use /home.old (and /usr.old and /var.old and /usr.new etc ........) you can have it mounted as /usr/local/my/favorite/drink/is/coke if you wanted..just be sure that the path exists before trying to mount it :) > so here, when > unmounting /home, this just means stop using the stuff in /devb/hdb6 but > /home will exist, just in hda5 where / is instead of using the hdb6. yes, /home should be an empty directory after the device is unmounted. > I also assume that the /home entry in /etc/fstab is only there to mount > /home somewhere else other than th the partition that / is mounted, and > removing it will simply begin using /home in the / partition as it has > been created. is this correct understanding? yep thats right nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
