Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 mmiller@enterprise.extremezone.com wrote:
> I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own
> partition. I created /dev/hda8 and made an ext2 file sys there.
> I then mounted /dev/hda8 on /mnt, and issued 'cp -rp /home/* /mnt'
>
> This looked good, so I changed /etc/fstab to reflect this new home
> for /home, and rebooted.
>
> 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,
> but how do I get at it?
Unmount /dev/hda8 (best done in the singel user mode, init 1), the old
(hiden) content of /home will show up and can be deleted with
rm /home/* -rf, then mount again /dev/hda8 on /home.
Martin
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