Partitions

[ThaMATRiX]

Hi. I currently have two 120gb hard drives in my server, part of the first is at /home, and the whole second hard drive is at /home2

If I transfer all the accounts from /home2 to /home , it makes a symlink on home2 to the home directory on /home

If I delete all the symlinks, can I unmount it as /home2 and remount it as /backup for a backup drive?

Will deleting the symlinks affect anything?

[PWSowner]

Check your httpd.conf file for the path to the directories. If it says the accounts are in /home2/username, you will need to change all of those.

[ThaMATRiX]

What could I do to make something run through that file and change all /home2 to /home automatically?

[PWSowner]

For myself, I just download the file and use any real text editor to search and replace, then upload and restart apache.

Make a backup copy first.

I'm not positive if that's the only file that needs to be changed, but I think it is. I don't recall any other files actually recording the path to the directory.

[PWSowner]

Just remembered, the path is also in the /etc/proftpd/username files, so you will need to look and see if they also show home2. If so, just download all those files and search/replace "/home2/" with "/home/" in them and the httpd.conf file.

[ThaMATRiX]

Is there a command to look through all files for anything containing /home2
?
Thanks.

[PWSowner]

Is there a command to look through all files for anything containing /home2
?
Thanks.

There is but I don't remember how at the moment.

[PWSowner]

grep is what you want

[SarcNBit]

man sed

sed 's/home2/home/g' <filename>

should do it for you.

I would make a backup copy of whatever file you are going to process first

[ThaMATRiX]

does anyone have the needed commands to remove /home2 and add /backups in its place? Thanks.

[challii]

things this will probably break:

1) any users who have php includes in the form /home/username/www/filename.php
2) horde / imap (last time we moved accounts from home2 to home it didnt update the /home/etc/passwd file with the new locations of various files

Just thought i would point that out

[webhostexpert]

Backup the accounts with symlinks on /home2
mv backups to /home
terminate the accounts
rm remove the symlinks on /home2
restore the backups in /home

all set all the files should be changed for you.