http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/ Paul, perhaps the above link would've been helpful. I'm not sure if you are forwarding a solution or if you are forwarding your error (I didn't take the time to read the entire message).
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Paul Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > attached message with regard to moving /home to a new partition so i have > more space for my files etc > > Paul > > > Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:41:11PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > > > >> formatting the drive, dragging / dropping the contents of /home to the > >> new drive and editing fstab or mtab (or whatever) to point to the new > >> /home mount point seems far too simple. > >> > > > > This is unix. It is that simple. > > > > Format the drive, mount it on /mnt/tmp-home or something, copy > > everything in /home to /mnt/tmp-home, then update /etc/fstab to mount > > the new drive on /home. > > > > > > Ok this still isn't working > > /sda7 is now newly formatted to ext3 > /sda5 is my current /home parition > contents of /sda5/ have been copied over with cp -a > > my old fstab file looks like this > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > # /dev/sda1 > UUID=5fe0b542-d40b-455e-8bc4-ef64b819639d / ext3 > relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > # /dev/sda5 > UUID=9b5fd981-043b-4960-99a0-37fb7a3dbcc1 /home ext2 > relatime 0 2 > # /dev/sda6 > UUID=c3cc4e3f-eb87-4e21-bf7a-28ddca9de2d3 none swap > sw 0 0 > #/dev/sda7 UUID=d15c6c4a-61dc-4792-bd77-3d0e297f2bf0 ext3 0 0 > /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > /dev/scd2 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > > this one works allows me to log in > > the one I am trying toedit looks like this > /dev/scd2 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > psut...@desktop:~$ > psut...@desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab.bak2 > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > # /dev/sda1 > UUID=5fe0b542-d40b-455e-8bc4-ef64b819639d / ext3 > relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > # /dev/sda5 > UUID=9b5fd981-043b-4960-99a0-37fb7a3dbcc1 /old_home ext2 > relatime 0 2 > # /dev/sda6 > UUID=c3cc4e3f-eb87-4e21-bf7a-28ddca9de2d3 none swap > sw 0 0 > > #/dev/sda7 > UUID=d15c6c4a-61dc-4792-bd77-3d0e297f2bf0 /home ext3 > relatim 0 2 > > /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > /dev/scd2 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > > > i creatred a back up so i can restore the original, clearly i rename > this 2nd one to fstab before rebooting and trying to log in > > With this 2nd fstab file i get as far as the login screen (gdm) > > log in and get a message > > cannot enter home directory using /. > > it then doesn't give me a desktop > > my media directory has the following > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom -> cdrom0 > dr-xr-xr-x 26 root root 20480 2008-12-13 16:12 cdrom0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom2 > drwx------ 6 psutton root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 disk > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-12 20:42 disk-1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-13 18:11 music > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-12-13 17:41 temp-home > > > i have mounted /sda7 on temp-home > > Can anyone please help, as I need this extra disk space > > Paul > > > > > > > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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