Also...  don't forget to add /dev/hdb5 and /home to your /etc/fstab so
it's mounted automatically at boot time.
~M


On Tue, 7 May 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:

> mkdir /temphome
> mount /dev/hdb5 /temphome
> cp -a /home/* /temphome
> umount /temphome
> rmdir /temphome
> mount /dev/hdb5 /home
>
> These steps will vary slightly, depending on whether /home is already on
> it's own partition.  If it is, then you'll need to umount /home before you
> can mount /dev/hdb5 on it.  Also, you may or may not want to delete all
> the files on /home before you mount /dev/hdb5 on it.  If you don't delete
> them, then they'll still be there when you umount /dev/hdb5.  They'll just
> be "hidden" while /dev/hdb5 is mounted on /home.
> ~M
>
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>
> "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
> nothing"
>   --Edmund Burke.
>
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Roderick Ford wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> > I'm betting that this is a really simple question, but I haven't been
> > able to figure out how to do it, myself.
> >
> > I want to move a root directory "/home" to a partition
> > "/dev/hdb5"...sounds simple enough.  Thanks for answering this newbie
> > question.
> >
> > Rod
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