renovate partitions without reinstalling

[Charles Howse]

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On Monday 08 March 2004 02:04 pm, thedogfarted wrote:

> > Ummm...I thought we mounted filesystems rather than partitions...?
> > Could you show me an example of how to mount a partition while in rescue
> > mode, please?
>
> let it be filesystems. never heard about more filesystems on one
> partition or one filesystem on many partitions

After referring to man mount, it appears you are correct.
My apologies.  :-)
>
> for example i had to move all data form /dev/hda6 (my previous /home) to
> /dev/hda3 (newly created)
>
> #mkdir /mnt/oldhome
> #mkdir /mnt/newhome
>
> #mount /dev/hda6 -t ext3 /mnt/oldhome
> #mount /dev/hda3 -t ext3 /mnt/newhome
>
> #cp -r /mnt/oldhome/* /mnt/newhome
>
> >>now that you have copied all the files you wanted to reside on hda
> >>(probably all /boot partition and / without /home and /tmp) do what you
> >>want with hdc - probably move files that /home is instead of previous /
> >>etc and then edit grub.conf and fstab, it could look like this
> >
> > Stop...I'm lost.
> > I was with you until we started moving "files that /home is..."
> > I must not be reading correctly, it doesn't make sense.  :-)
>
> probably i missed something there (as i said english is not my native,
> it's quite hard to think in two languages :)
>
> the idea was to move contents of /home that they reside on / of your
> filesystem so you can mount it. If /dev/hdc2 was your / (and you have
> copied it's contents to hda2) then you can do the following:
>
> #mkdir /mnt/oldroot
> #mount /dev/hdc2 -t ext3 /mnt/oldroot
>
> delete all you have moved to hda2
>
> #cp -r /home/* /
>
> and delete the old home
>
> #rm -rf /home

OK, I understand now...thanks.


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Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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