moving /var and /home to a new partition

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Hi,
mv automatically preserves all owner, group, and permition information.
What you want to do should work just fine.

Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Raul A. Gallegos said

> Hi.  I have FC3 installed and currently use the following on one hdd:
>
> /hda1 swap
> /hda2 /
> /hda3 /usr/local
> /hda4 /home
>
> I did this because at time of install I only had one drive.  Now I
will be
> installing a second drive for /home only.  So what I want to do is
move /home
> to /hdc1 and then move /var to home's current partition /hda4.
>
> I boot into single user mode first and edit fstab.
>
> I know how to edit /etc/fstab but my question is what parameters I
should
> give mv when moving the directories.
>
> I figured I could temporarily mount /hdc1 as /newhome then:
>
> cd /home
> mv * /newhome
>
> Now I can umount /newhome
>
> Now for /var I could do:
>
> cd /var
> mv * /home
>
> So when I reboot all the /var files will be in /home's old partition
/hda4
> and the new /home will be on /hdc1.
>
> What I'm worried about is preserving all permissions, ownerships, etc.
>
> Does this all look right?
>
>
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