moving oracle to a new partition

Hi database gurus:

I currently have oracle 6.0.33 installed in a partition, but would like to move it to a larger partition. Oracle is currently installed in /thirdParty, with /thirdParty/oracle/dbs being a link to another partition /oracle_data.

I attempted to copy all the oracle binary files with 'cp -rp'. This copied all the files successfully to what will be the new thirdParty volume. However, when I attempted to bring oracle up, it complained that the data files (files in /oracle_data) were out of synch with the database.

Is it possible to move oracle to another partition or is it better simply to reinstall oracle? We cannot move to a more current version due to technical reasons. Thanks for your input.

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