heya, On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 08:30:51PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > Now, I found that /home has taken up almost all of /'s available space. > So, I created a new logical partion from some free space, as /dev/hdb5 > (~2GB) just wait, /var will probably be your next culprit :) > My question is: How can I format the new partition as ext3, and move > /home to it safely? mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt rsync -a /home/* /mnt umount /mnt mv /home /home.old mount /dev/hdb5 /home and you're running. then put /dev/hdb5 in /etc/fstab as /home, and you're set across reboots. note that you don't have to use rsync (there's cp,tar,pax...), but i use it so much these days it's the one for which i could remember the preserving options easiest. hth sean
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