From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from idea1.anoeticconcepts.com ([64.191.54.245]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DGjXc-0004O2-00 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:11:52 -0500 Received: from 70-59-15-202.dnvr.qwest.net ([70.59.15.202] helo=Saidar) by idea1.anoeticconcepts.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DGjXa-00089l-6l for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:11:50 -0500 Message-ID: <004a01c53564$b3eca7c0$0d00a8c0@Saidar> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" To: "Speakup" Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:11:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - idea1.anoeticconcepts.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - asmodean.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: moving /var and /home to a new partition X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:11:53 -0000 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?