Re: Re-allocate /home on a diff partition

arun.iit@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
My present harddisk partition info is as follows

[user@dreamer]# df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 86G 2.4G 79G 3% /
/dev/sda7 20G 80M 19G 1% /BACKUP
/dev/sda1 104M 16M 83M 16% /boot
/dev/shm 1.1G 0 1.1G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 26G 111M 24G 1% /home
/dev/sda5 21G 7.1G 13G 37% /usr

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I plan to have a lot of users on this machine (around 10,000)
As you can see there isnt much empty space in /home partition.
I want to shift the /home folder under ' / '.
ie I want /home also on ' sda2 ' instead of sda3.

Hw do i go about doing that.
Are there any risks involved??

Thanks in advance.

Arun

Arun,


How many user do you need? You only used 111M and are still left with 24G on /home.

So why do you want to shift /home to a directory under /.

A way to go is.

mkdir /home1
cp -Rav /home/* /home1>/root/copyaction

see if all files are copied

rm -rf /home

mv /home1 /home

vi /etc/fstab
remove the line refering to /dev/sda3

WARNING: if you do not check carefully for missing files before the rm -rf /home you loose data.


Kind regards,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra RHCE
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