ok that is good. what is init 1? why should i need to do this. by the way, my /home has a very small amount of data in it at the moment anyway. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Wardle [mailto:michael.wardle@adacel.com] Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 3:32 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: mounting /home somewhere else On Wednesday, March 5, 2003 14:55, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > how can i assign /home to be mounted in /dev/hda5 that is, inside the /. > what i want is to use one partition for the lot (except the swap of > course). how can i now do this with a minimum of fuss and data loss. You've used some incorrect terminology, but if I understand correctly, you just want to combine all the data from your root (/) and home (/home) partitions on to the root partition. To do this all you need to do is copy the files over, preserving permissions. The commands to run would look something like: # init 1 # cd / # mkdir /home.new # cp -rp /home /home.new # umount /home # rmdir /home # mv /home.new /home You'll then want to update your file system table (/etc/fstab) to no longer mount /dev/hda6 on /home, clear the data off /dev/hda6, and bring the system back to a multiuser runlevel (such as 3), again using init. You can also do the copying using an archival utility such as tar, but I don't think that's any better than using cp as shown above. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
