On Thursday, February 05, 2015 05:21:10 PM Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:38:27 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > > This is why , having been bit once, follow the procedure for new > > > installations: > > > > > > - Have the /home directory on a separate physical unit > > > > The installer WILL NOT ALLOW that. > > The installer will know nothing about it; you install, then once > installed connect your home CD, boot a live CD, find and delete the > content of the /home created by the installer, add the /dev/sdXXX of > your old home drive to fstab, and reboot. > > The installer never sees your old /home so never gets a chance to bugger > it up. > > Cheers, > > Ron.
Precisely Ron. But now I have added about 30Gb of data to the /home directory that I will need to rsync to the newer disk. Ditto for about 200Gb of data in the /opt directory. The /opt directory is not near as dynamic in content as /home of course, but it has most of the stuff for my web page on it, something I haven't yet verified is working. Probably tomorrow. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502051735.59678.ghesk...@wdtv.com
