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From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm@pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: moving /var and /home to a new partition
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:07:53 -0700 (Mountain Standard Time)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.62.0503311906570.2556@merlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004a01c53564$b3eca7c0$0d00a8c0@Saidar>

Hi,
mv automatically preserves all owner, group, and permition information.
What you want to do should work just fine.

Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm@pcdesk.net
Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7

And so it came to pass that on Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Raul A. Gallegos said

> 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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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Raul A. Gallegos
 ` Janina Sajka
   ` Raul A. Gallegos
     ` Steve Dawes
     ` Janina Sajka
       ` Raul A. Gallegos
 ` Joseph C. Lininger [this message]

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