Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-14 Thread Matthew Dalton
Your old /home is still on your root filesystem, but is being hidden by the new partition mounted there. Unmount your new home, delete the old one, then remount the new one again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own partition. I created

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-12 Thread Rev. DeFiLEZ
go to single user mode (not REALLY nessessary but good idea) umount /home cd /home rm -r mount /dev/blah /home go back to multi user mode ps you should you you cp -a when coping files (preserves link, rights, and owners) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:58:20AM -0700, [EMAIL

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-11 Thread robbie
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio. cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time. What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems using cp with no problems yet. -- Unsubscribe?

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: : Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio. : cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time. : What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-11 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: : What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems using cp with no : problems yet. device files (tar blows on those too). I don't think cp gets files with holes right either (but I could be wrong). cp does have problems with sparse files

Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-10 Thread mmiller
I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own partition. I created /dev/hda8 and made an ext2 file sys there. I then mounted /dev/hda8 on /mnt, and issued 'cp -rp /home/* /mnt' This looked good, so I changed /etc/fstab to reflect this new home for /home, and rebooted. I'm

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy in my new /home, but I want to clean out my old /home. 'df -h /' still shows a full file sys, yet 'du -hs /home' shows over 2M. I'm assuming that 2M is still hiding under / somewhere, 2M is not really an awful lot of space, you know.

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own partition. I created /dev/hda8 and made an ext2 file sys there. I then mounted /dev/hda8 on /mnt, and issued 'cp -rp /home/* /mnt' This looked good, so I changed /etc/fstab to