Re: [opensuse] Moving /home to root partition

Bob Kline wrote:
Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
Hi,


I have the /home on its own partition, but I need to move it to the root
partition without losing data,

I am not an expert but I was thinking if the following should work

1. To be on the safe side get out of x (ex: init 3) ....

Wouldn't it be even safer to boot from a live CD?


As long as only root is logged in, init 3 is fine.


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