--- Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have the /home on its own partition, but I need
to move it to the root
partition without losing data,
I am not an expert but I was thinking if the following should work
- To be on the safe side get out of x (ex: init
Mohammad Bhuyan wrote: 3) ....
Wouldn't it be even safer to boot from a live CD?
I had the opposite problem a few days ago: I had to move /home off the root partition and onto a new partition. Since I have two Linux systems installed, I can use the one to modify the other. I have 9.0 on a logical partition on hda and 10.2 on a logical partition on hdb. When I installed 10.2 last week, I inadvertantly ended up with /home on the root partition. Not knowing what to do, I proceeded one step at a time, checking each result. Using the 9.0 system: * I mounted the two 10.2 partitions, hdb5 and hdb6. * I copied the 10.2 /home subdirectories from hdb5 (root) to hdb6 (new home) * I renamed 10.2 /home to /home_hdb5, to preserve the the original subdirectories (for recovery) * I created a new 10.2 /home to serve as a mount-point for 10.2 fstab * I made sure that the 10.2 fstab entry used hdb6 Much to my surprise, 10.2 survived and is now working fine, with the new /home. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org