On Sun December 4 2005 10:23 am, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Go to init 1. > Move home files to new drive. > Unmount /home > Edit fstab. > Remount new /home. If I'm understanding this better now, let me ask of your patience again. Thanks to all for your suggestions. I read the links provided by Anil, and that helped to state the man docs in different words and make them come more clear. But, each question answered raises a new question. I'm not free to experiment freely, because this machine is firewalling, routing, and doing dhcp for a network that needs to stay pretty much up. Taking Gilboa's suggestions: 1) Go to init 1 - from a root prompt I can type "init 1" 2) Move home files to new drive - here, I'm floundering. My new drive sda1 is not mounted yet. I've read the man mv pages, but, I'm not clear here. Can I just run: " mv -rp /home /sda1" 3) Unmount home - this I think I understand: "umount /home" 4) Edit fstab - I like Anil's suggestion here - make a copy of my current fstab with a different name before embarking on step 1 - edit it as it should look after I'm done - then, after completing steps 1-3 above, use the cp command to overwrite the current fstab with my edited version 5) Remount new /home: "mount /dev/sda1 /home" Am I getting this right? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
