On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 11:33, Jonathan Schwarz wrote: > Thanks for the responses, guys. No problem. > Another quick question: I'm aware that what I'm going to propose is not > the 'best' way to do this, but will it work? > > I'd prefer to do this while not in single user mode. I understand that > the main risks are that the home dir would be modified while I'm in the > process of moving it. The problem with the method you describe is that there are bound to be processes writing (or trying to write) to /home, *especially* if your users are logged in. You'll need access to the unmounted partition to modify it with parted (or so I believe, it's the only way I've tried). If you can manage to umount /home while in runlevel [3|5], more power to you. P.S. Regarding the [cp|mv|etc] "argument", I usually use a tar copy anyways, as it will definitely capture all dotfiles, symlinks, sockets, permissions, etc. But I thought I'd try to keep it as simple as possible... you should have backups anyways, right? ;-) -- 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
