On 06/06/12 17:45, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
A work colleague has added a new hard disc to his Xubuntu system and formatted
it so that it appears as a mount point in the file browser. However, what he
really wants to do is to use that disc to contain his home directory, so that
the / directory has a disc to itself.
He doesn't have much in his current /home directory (he's a very new user), so
one way to do this is a clean install and mount the new disc as /home during
installation. However, I'm sure that there's a 'proper' way to do it; a new
entry in fstab and some judicious copying perhaps?
Can someone give me a procedure or series of steps to do this without breaking
his existing installation?
While I can't give detailed instructions, as off top of head I cannot
remember the exact way I did it off the top of my head, I can certainly
tell you that it's possible.
I did it once about 10 years ago on a Mandriva (or was it still mandrake
then?) install, and I've even transferred /usr to a seperate hard drive
once successfully too.
I probably just googled it when I did it in the past.
I think it was prety much a case of temporarily mounting the drive as
/homenew copy everything from the current /home to it (including hidden
files etc) then rename/unmount existing /home to /oldhome and change the
/homenew entries to /home.
Once you are sure everything is working correctly, you can delete /oldhome
That's about as helpful as I can get without googling it myself, and I
figure you can do that as well as I :)
Glenn
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