On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:09:09AM +0000, wayne petherick wrote:
> I want to move my /home directory to another drive. Someone mentioned and
> article from a linux mag that had this exact procedure in it. Would
> someone be able to point me in the right direction, or help me out with
> this? I have tried to do it based on what I know, but I obviously don't
> know enough!!!
>
> Wayne
>
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> Wayne Petherick
> Humanities and Social Sciences
> Bond University
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This should do it. No warranties expressed or implied; yer on yer own,
though.
1) Tar/b2zip, etc, the /home directory and back it up as appropriate. Test
the integrity of your archive to be sure you can recover it.
2) Delete the contents of the directory (rm -r /home/*).
3) Prepare the new partition as needed.
4) Create a mount in fstab. Be sure to make it auto so it is mounted at
boot time. Something like:
/dev/sda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
5) Mount the new partition: "mount /home".
6) Unpack the backed up home directory into the directory.
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