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 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 reflect this new home > for /home, and rebooted. > > 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, > but how do I get at it? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >