how to change a mount location after boot. Safely!

lowbatt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

Ok so im a tard and mounted my /home and /var to the same HD partition and didnt notice till i just ran out of space :oops:

I need to point my /hom to the 18 gig part i made for it and can i jsut copy the old /home to the new one in some way? or am i forced to start over and reinstall? or will it even hurt much of anything?
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pjp · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:06 am Post subject:

You should be able to unmount them and then edit the /etc/fstab file, then remount them.
Your data should be on one of them. After they are properly mounted, I'd think you could
migrate the data to the appropriate location.
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Pavan · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 25 Location: India

It would be easier to just change /etc/fstab & then reboot. Because unmounting /var may cause troubles.

Next reboot - home should be mounted correctly. Now just copy/move all the files & everything should be ok.

Don't forget to use the -a option of cp.

pjp · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:10 am Post subject:

lowbatt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

well i dont need to unmount /var just home

var is set right. home just contains the folders that match the uder names and thats all right?
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pjp · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:17 am Post subject:

lowbatt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

one last thing. I got ahead of my self and deleted my only users folder before i made sure everything was coppied and when I start KDE it keeps popping up .DCOP.... error says it can't find it and sure its not install any where to get that folder i deleted back?>
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pjp · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:29 am Post subject:

I'd just delete the user and create it over.
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Pavan · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 25 Location: India

lowbatt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

I got it all fixed. thanks everyone for the quick reply's
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