On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> hey,
>
> my problem is this:  I had previously installed a 7.1 system w/ 2 disks (hda
> & hdb) now the hdb disk has a single partition (/home),  now what I would
> like to do is remove an unnecessary extra partition that I added on the hda
> disk and move /home to hda.---I need and extra disk :-(
>
> Before I screw up the whole system..
> /etc/fstab lists /home as "LABEL=/home".
> do I just
> 1) rename /home to something else temporarily
> 2) remove /mypartition and /fstab references
> 3) mke2fs -L /home -c /dev/hda'n
> 4) move over old contents of /home and reclaim my extra drive
>
You will want to do this in the single user mode.  You will also want to
change or remove the label on the current /home partition before you
label the new one.  I am not sure what would happen with two /home
labels, but I would play it safe.

When you move things, you may want to mount the current /home partition
on a tempary mount point, and have the new /home partition mounted on
/home.  Depending on what you use to transfere the files, it may mess up
the symlinks otherwise.

Mikkel
-- 

    Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
 for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.



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