Need to move parition

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks.  I'm trying to find a partition with enough space now.

Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> You can do anything you want.  Your best bet would be to move (copy if you
> like backup) the contents of /home to /usr/home (which will be a directory
> /home on sda2).  Then, umount /home and delete the /home directory from
> the root partition.  The final part is to create a softlink to make it
> LOOK like /home sits at /home.  type the following command at this point:
> ln -s /usr/home /home
> 
> That will create the link and /home will be available as long as /usr is
> mounted.
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:16:07 -0500
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <bholcomb at R777cableone.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm running Caldera 3.1 WS with three scsi drives.  One drive (sdb) is
>> going bad.  I moved /var from /dev/sdb4 to /var on my root partition
>> (/dev/sda1) and that worked - except cups doesn't print anymore but I'll
>> 
>> fix that later.
>> 
>> I have /home on /dev/sdb3 and need to move it somewhere else.  It won't
>> fit on any partition but /dev/sda2 which is currently mounted as /usr.
>>  I
>> went to the SxS and the man pages.  Is there anyway I can copy /home to
>> say /usr/home and then mount it as /home?  I tried various forms of
>> mount and can't make it work.  I don't have spare partitions on this
>> system to use either.  I just need to keep it running until I can get my
>> RH 7.3 system delivered and installed.
>> 
>> My swap partition is also on the bad drive but I don't have anywhere to
>> move it.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
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