One of the drawbacks of the mv command is permissions and ownership. Instead, you might want to use rsync which will allow you to preserve those with the -p switch. Also, rsync is safer--in case something happens during the big job. Once moved, you can just rm -rf. Raul A. Gallegos writes: > Hi. I have FC3 installed and currently use the following on one hdd: > > /hda1 swap > /hda2 / > /hda3 /usr/local > /hda4 /home > > I did this because at time of install I only had one drive. Now I will be > installing a second drive for /home only. So what I want to do is move > /home to /hdc1 and then move /var to home's current partition /hda4. > > I boot into single user mode first and edit fstab. > > I know how to edit /etc/fstab but my question is what parameters I should > give mv when moving the directories. > > I figured I could temporarily mount /hdc1 as /newhome then: > > cd /home > mv * /newhome > > Now I can umount /newhome > > Now for /var I could do: > > cd /var > mv * /home > > So when I reboot all the /var files will be in /home's old partition /hda4 > and the new /home will be on /hdc1. > > What I'm worried about is preserving all permissions, ownerships, etc. > > Does this all look right? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
