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[Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/08/06 10:53, jdd sur free wrote:
> <snip>
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>> mv /home /oldhome (rename, wont use more disk room)
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> mkdir /home as mounting point
Doh!
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> > mount /home /your new disk partition (hdb1?)
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>> make /etc/fstab entry for /home (5. modify /etc/fstab to include
>> /dev/hdxx /home reiserfs 
> acl,user_xattr 1 3)
If the fstab entry is made first, then you only need "mount /home", no
need to type anything else.

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>> move contents of /oldhome to /home
> mv wont do across disks AKAIK. cp -a or tar instead
Probably cp -a is best, at least IMO (which also makes a correction to
my correction -- I forgot to specify a recursive copy).
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> return to init 3 or 5 (your usual one)
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> test and retest the move, where there soft links in /home?
cp --preserve, or perhaps cp --preserve=all, will copy soft links as links.