Re: moving directories to new partition

["Richard Morin" <qnc496@durhamnews.net>]

> I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the 
> directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made.
> 
> /dev/hda4  is currently mounted /
> /dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount
> 
> I'd like to be able to move /home, /root, /lib,  /bin, and a couple 
> others over to /dev/hda8  
> 

Thanks to all who helped me out.  I ended up "cp -p -r"  my /home, 
/var, and  /root directories to /tmpmount/originaldir/ and made /home 
a link to /tmpmount/home ect.

This freed up some space, and I was able to get things going just 
fine.  Love quake under X, nice resolution.

Rich M
qnc496@durhamnews.net


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