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Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys



On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 mmiller@enterprise.extremezone.com wrote:

> I'm happy in my new /home, but I want to clean out my old /home.
> 'df -h /' still shows a full file sys, yet 'du -hs /home' shows over
> 2M.  I'm assuming that 2M is still hiding under / somewhere,

2M is not really an awful lot of space, you know.

Anyway, to get at it just umount /home, that will reveal everything
underneath it.  Mount it again when you're done, of course.

Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio.
cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time.


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