logout all users login as root mv /home /oldhome make /etc/fstab entry for /home mount /home move contents of /oldhome to /home delete /oldhome and contents (rm - R /oldhome, IIRC)
Oops, to preserve permissions, links, etc more easily, "move contents of /oldhome to /home" should be:
I do not know what happened to your `mv` but mine certainly keeps permissions and stuff. And, I'd say that's default because mv does not have a -p option.
cp -- preserve /oldhome/* /home
rsync - ar works a treat and preserves owner/modes.
You certainly want -HSa. (And note that -r is in -a)
Thank you everyone for filling in the blanks. I will give this a shot later tonight and see how it goes. Luckily /home does not have a bunch of data. I will try the rsync -ar and if not that the cp --preserve.
Thanks, Brian
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