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Hi
I've just got arch working for the first time (after 2 failed attempts) and already I see I've messed up.
I have two partitions. A 4gig and a 15gig.
I installed Arch with the 4gig mounted as / and the 15gig as /home but that was quite silly 'cause 4gigs wasn't near enough space.
I want to move everything to the 15gig. So the 15gig will be mounted as /.
I've looked around a bit and it seems that I should be able to do that by copying
everything on the 4gig onto the 15gig and editing my fstab to mount the 15gig as / instead of /home.
Then I think I'd have to move the daniel (my username) folder on the 15gig into a folder called home.
One problem may be that when I copy everything the permissions won't be kept. How do I get around that?
Is this method doable? Are there complications I've missed?
Thanks
Daniel
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1) do it from a LiveCD
2) use cp -a (recursive by default, preserves permissions and timestamps)
3) edit fstab
4) edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
5) cross your fingers and reboot
i used similar steps to go from 32bit to 64bit recently.
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Thanks brisbin.
Busy copying now. Hope it works.
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