Suggest you use reiser or ext3 rather than ext2, but ext2 good enough.

something approximately like this might work
mke2fs /dev/hda4
mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
mv /home/* /mnt
umount /mnt
add a line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda4        /home            reiserfs    defaults         1   2
then:
mount /home

should pick it up then when it boots.
Good luck, hope that doesn't mess up your system :)

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Russ wrote:

Hello,

I'm running Slackware 10.1.  I have a dual boot system with a 8G HD.  I
have 1.3G devoted to fat16 on hda1. 4G devoted to hda2 that contains all
linux files and folders.  200M devoted to swap hda3. I just set all my
free space 2.5G to a linux partition with cfdisk and made it hda4. Since I
ran out of space in my home directory on hda2, I want to format my free
space and move my /home directory from hda2 to hda4.

Is it safe to do this?

How can I do this?

What should I run to accomplish this?

I also figure I need to assign hda4 a file system type of ext2.

Sincerely,

Russ M

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