Re: Transferring contents /home to new partition

["Koree A. Smith" <koree@accessus.net>]

Sure it will.  The first thing you'll want to do is to mount the new partition
on your existing system in somewhere that won't be critical.  Somewhere like
/mnt/tmp or something.  You'd do this using the mount command:

mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/tmp -t ext2

Then, you'd want to copy your /home contents over.  From the /home dir, you'd
want to type:

cp -a * /mnt/tmp

after this was done, you'd want to move your old home stuff somewhere else, or
delete it (moving is just to make sure ya have a backup of it).  Then, you'd
configure your system to mount /dev/hdb3 on /home (this is the beauty of VFS
or Virtual File System).  This information is stored in /etc/fstab and
/etc/mtab.  Take a look at those files.  It's pretty self explanatory.  Here's
an example of my /etc/mtab file.

dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /users ext2 rw 1 1
/dev/hdb2 /dump ext2 rw 1 1
none /proc proc rw 1 1


Here's my fstab file:

/dev/hda2       swap        swap        defaults   1   1
/dev/hda3       swap        swap        defaults   1   1
/dev/hda1       /        ext2        defaults   1   1
/dev/hdb1       /users   ext2        defaults   1   1
/dev/hdb2       /dump    ext2        defaults   1   1
none        /proc        proc        defaults   1   1


Hope this helps some....

Koree

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 tskinner@globaleyes.net wrote:

> 
> You missed the mark, my friend, in the interpretation. Basically, I fully
> understand how to copy the contents of one directory to another, my
> question revolves around transferring (physically) the contents of /home
> from /dev/hdb2 to /dev/hdb3. The 'cp' command will not aid me in this
> transition.
> 
> 											Tony
> 
> At 11:31 PM 11/18/97 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >cp -a <olddir> <newdir>
> >is one way of many
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 tskinner@globaleyes.net wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 	I have installed linux onto to a single partition (yes I know, a major
> >> no-no). Anyways, I am wanting to add more space to linux system by simply
> >> repartitioning my working dos partition into 2 parts. I was wondering how I
> >> can take the newly gained partition and transfer the contents of /home from
> >> the original linux partition to my newly formed partition? The reason I ask
> >> this question is because Linux (or Unix in general) interprets multiple
> >> partitions as one fixed disk (at least from the standpoint of typing 'ls'
> >> from the root directory). Any ideas, hints or tips would be greatly
> >> appreciated!
> >> 
> >> 								Tony
> >> 
> >> 
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