Re: Migrating /home from too small /dev/hda partition

Try using rsync --archive. It can recover from partial copies. After
all, it was written with the idea of *syncing* in mind.

Vance Lankhaar

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:17, Tony Godshall wrote:
> According to Ryan,
> > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:35, Dan Whitacre wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > A few days ago, I rambled about many things, one of
> > > which was having too small a /home dir, living on its
> > > own /dev/hda7 partion that in my lack of wisdom, I
> > > made way too small (61M) on install.  Well, I managed
> > > to move it, and at the risk of condecending, I'll go
> > > through the process:
> > 
> > Thanks for taking the time to write it out, I'm sure it will assist
> > someone in the future .. and yes, you can move any partition anywhere
> > you want without reinstalling through similar means to what you
> > described.  Some other more vital partitions have other considerations
> > and are not quite as simple though.
> 
> amen to that!
> 
> > > I did 'mv /opt/home /home'
> > 
> > A somewhat better way to copy the filesystem with the
> > permissions ...
> 
> yes!  I like to make sure the new copy is good before I
> remove the old.  I've had moves fail halfway and be a pain
> to get back together.
> 
> I usually do something fairly cautious like this myself:
> 
>   cp -a /home/. /newplace/home/. \
>   && mv /home /home.old \
>   && ln -s /newplace/home/. /home
> 
> Then I check that everything still works ok before deleting 
> the old dir.
> 
> Note that I don't typically map my physical partitions to
> the traditional top level dirs.  I usually have a small / 
> and large /big, and /home /usr /var are symlinks to /big/home 
> /big/usr /big/var, etc.
> 
> Alternatively you could use LVM etc to resize volumes.  But
> LVM seems complicated to me.
> 
> 
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