On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 23:02, Jonathan Schwarz wrote: > I have a need to split my /home partition (which is huge) into two > separate partitions, a new home, and a backup partition. > > Is there any way for me to do this without too much hassle/data loss? > > Since I have room on /, is it possible to move home to the / partition, > cut that partition, then move /home back? Any ideas or preferred tools > for this? Easy. 1) Reboot to single-user mode. 2) umount /home (if already mounted) 3) mkdir /home 4) mkdir /mnt/home 5) mount -t<type> /dev/<old /home partition> /mnt/home 6) mv /mnt/home/* /home/ 7) umount /mnt/home 8) Use parted to repartition and format your partitions (man parted) 9) mount -t<type> /dev/<new /home partition> /mnt/home 10) mv /home /mnt/home/ 11) umount /mnt/home 12) rmdir /home 13) Edit /etc/fstab as necessary 14) Reboot Sounds worse than it is. It's just a lot of little steps. I haven't used parted much, so I'd suggest testing it on another drive first, just so you get comfortable with it. P.S. Sean/Rodolfo/Ed, if I've forgotten anything, please speak up. I need sleep. ;-) -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
