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From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@asmodean.net>
To: "Speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: moving /var and /home to a new partition
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:11:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004a01c53564$b3eca7c0$0d00a8c0@Saidar> (raw)

Hi.  I have FC3 installed and currently use the following on one hdd:

/hda1 swap
/hda2 /
/hda3 /usr/local
/hda4 /home

I did this because at time of install I only had one drive.  Now I will be 
installing a second drive for /home only.  So what I want to do is move 
/home to /hdc1 and then move /var to home's current partition /hda4.

I boot into single user mode first and edit fstab.

I know how to edit /etc/fstab but my question is what parameters I should 
give mv when moving the directories.

I figured I could temporarily mount /hdc1 as /newhome then:

cd /home
mv * /newhome

Now I can umount /newhome

Now for /var I could do:

cd /var
mv * /home

So when I reboot all the /var files will be in /home's old partition /hda4 
and the new /home will be on /hdc1.

What I'm worried about is preserving all permissions, ownerships, etc.

Does this all look right?



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 Raul A. Gallegos [this message]
 ` Janina Sajka
   ` Raul A. Gallegos
     ` Steve Dawes
     ` Janina Sajka
       ` Raul A. Gallegos
 ` Joseph C. Lininger

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