On 28May2006 08:44, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 07:56 -0500, Basho Lim wrote:
| > Hey everyone. Is there a way to transfer my /home directory to
| > another partition without reinstalling Linux? My /home directory is
| > common to both FC5 and SuSE.
| >
| Is /home on it's own partition? If it is, you can just edit /etc/fstab
| in both distros to mount said partition under /home.
Doesn't matter:-)
Set up new partition with another name than /home. Copy the /home
directory onto it, probably using rsync. Unmount old /home,
unmount new home, remount new home as /home.
Personally, I dislike having "well known" directories at the very top
of a partition. It gives you no flexibility for rearranging things
easily.
Usually I make the patition which will store /home as something else,
normally (for me) "/app". Then I create /app/home and make a symlink:
ln -s /app/home /
That way the "/home" paths work and I can also use /app for other
things, creating /app/foo, /app/bah etc.
Likewise, your moving issue just becomes: make a new partition (/app2,
whatever), then move the home directoy across and adjust the "/home"
symlink.
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