Re: new hard drive mounting to /home
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On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, AJ wrote:
> can anyone tell me the best way to do this?
> i was thinking among the lines of:
> tar -vcf home.tar /home/
> rm -rf /home/
> mkdir /home
> mount /dev/hdb3 /home
> tar -xvf home.tar
That will work, but here's a slightly nicer way to do it:
mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt
cp -ax /home/* /mnt
rm -rf /home/*
umount /mnt
mount /dev/hdb3 /home
Read the man page for cp to understand how the -ax is helpful.
> will that work?
> then what files would i have to edit besides /etc/fstab? well plz let me
> know remember i wanna keep all permissions and that in tact,
Just /etc/fstab.
hth,
noah
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