[ale] moving filesystems/resizing

[John Wells]

Geoffrey,

Thanks again for the info.

Say I want to put both just /home on /dev/hda1.
After running mke2fs -j on the partition, do I simply
create a temporary mount point for it, copy the
contents of /home to this mount point, update
/etc/fstab to mount hda1 to /home on the next boot, mv
the old /home to /home_old (for safety), and then
remount /dev/hda1 to /home?

If so, what's the safest way to copy the full contents
of /home?  Can I just do something like:
tar -cvf - /home | (cd /tempmnt; tar -xvfp -)
?

Thanks!

John
--- Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> If I recall you said you had hda1 which was a
> windows partition you were 
> going to trash.  If this is correct, you could
> reformat that partition 
> for /home /var /, leaving your hda6 for /usr.  This
> is based on the 
> assumption that /usr is relatively large in
> comparison to the others 
> (/home /var /)
> 
> John Wells wrote:
> > Geoffrey,
> > 
> > My bad. We were in a bit of a rush when installing
> so I let the RH install
> > handle the partition (bad idea). This means that
> /boot is mounted on hda5
> > and everything else falls on hda6. What I'd like
> to do is slice the
> > existing filesystem on hda6 into a few separate
> filesystems (/usr /var
> > /home, etc.).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
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