Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2442 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 23:46 +0100, David Bolt wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, James Knott wrote:-
> 
> >Bob Kline wrote:
> >> Mohammad Bhuyan 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
> >>>
> >>> 1. To be on the safe side get out of x (ex: init 3) ....
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it be even safer to boot from a live CD?
> >>
> >
> >As long as only root is logged in, init 3 is fine.
> 
> You can't guarantee that other users won't log in while you're busy
> doing the changes while in runlevel 3 or 5.

You can when it's your home PC and you are the only one that uses it.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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