Moving data between Partitions

crofty13 · 07-14-2006, 06:46 PM

I have two partitions:

location mount point
/dev/hda1 /
/dev/hda2 /home

how can I move the /home and all of its contents across to /dev/hda1 so I can unmount hda2 and reformat it?

LinuxLala · 07-14-2006, 06:54 PM

just mount /dev/hda2 and copy all data to a temporary position in /dev/hda1. Then once you have formatted /dev/hda2 (i suppose you'd be using fdisk for that), you can move the files back into hda2.

For instance, you can create a directory /temporary and move all files from /home there, if you have enough space to copy all of /home

twantrd · 07-14-2006, 07:10 PM

Use rsync.

-twantrd

Bruce Hill · 07-14-2006, 08:43 PM

I second the rsync advice.

"rsync -vaz /home /"
This command does the same: "rsync -vaz /home/* /home/"
Notice where I add slashes and extra directories and the *
Be sure to test-run all of this by running the command first with an additional parameter: "-n"
Which gives a lot of output, but that is all informational - i.e. it tells you what it WOULD
do if you run the command without the "-n" parameter.

Peace,
Bruce