Re: Moving /home to new Parition

[Andrew Sullivan <sullivana@bpl.on.ca>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:51:25AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote:
> I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home as the mountpoint.
> When I go:
> 
> mount /dev/hda12 /home
> 
> I end up with an empty directory.  How do I move the current contents 
> of my /home directory into the new mountpoint /home on /dev/hda12?

mount /dev/hda12 /mnt
cp -ra /home/* /mnt
umount /mnt
mv /home /oldhome  [paranoia setting = high]
[edit /etc/fstab to get /dev/hda12 to mount as /home]
mount -a

Should get you what you want.

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