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/
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. 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. 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? -----Original Message----- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mounting /home somewhere else Mirabella, Mathew J said: > I have an rh8 installation with the / being mounted on /dev/hda5 and the > only other main partition apart from a 2gb swap is the /home on /dev/hdb6. > / and /home are about 20gb each. > but now i want to use /dev/hdb6 for something else. how can i assign > /home to be mounted in /dev/hda5 that is, inside the /. what i want is to > use one partition for the lot (except the swap of course). how can i now > do this with a minimum of fuss and data loss. log out of all non-root accounts login as root(preferably at the console rather then X) make a new mountmount (mkdir /home.old) umount /home ; mount /dev/hdb6 /home.old cp -a /home.old/* /home/ umount /dev/hdb6 rmdir /home.old remove /home entry from /etc/fstab resume normal operations nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
