[CentOS] disk partitioning - I'm missing something simple, I think
Ray Leventhal
centos at swhi.net
Fri May 9 19:49:06 UTC 2008
Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 15:36 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Excuse the question as I'm sure those more experienced will find it simple.
>>
>> I've a CentOS5.1 box with six physical drives, two of which are used for
>> nightly rsync
>> backups. Contents of /etc/mtab, /etc/fstab, df and a brief narrative
>> follow:
>>
<big snip>
>>
>> I'd like to move the contents of /home/adminusers from /dev/sdd1 to
>> /dev/sdc1 and use that underutilized drive elsewhere. What's the least
>> invasive way of doing this given the hardware and partitioning on my system?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
> ----
> mkdir /home/adminusers-temp
> cp -ar /home/adminusers /home/adminusers-temp
> umount /home/adminusers
> mv /home/adminusers-temp/* /home/adminusers
> rm -fr /home/adminusers-temp
>
> then edit /etc/fstab and comment out /dev/sdd1 line and all should be
> good
>
> Craig
>
>
Hi Craig,
Thank you :) Sometimes the brain just gets vacant. Your help is
greatly appreciated.
-Ray
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