Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys
Your old /home is still on your root filesystem, but is being hidden by
the new partition mounted there. Unmount your new home, delete the old
one, then remount the new one again.
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?
>
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