Mirabella, Mathew J said: > I have an rh8 installation with the / being mounted on /dev/hda5 and the > only other main partition apart from a 2gb swap is the /home on /dev/hdb6. > / and /home are about 20gb each. > but now i want to use /dev/hdb6 for something else. 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.
log out of all non-root accounts login as root(preferably at the console rather then X) make a new mountmount (mkdir /home.old) umount /home ; mount /dev/hdb6 /home.old cp -a /home.old/* /home/ umount /dev/hdb6 rmdir /home.old remove /home entry from /etc/fstab resume normal operations nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
