On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, copying > > all the installed data from /home to it, then fixing fstab to mount that > > drive on top of the existing /home directory? I have done that in the > > past, but not in the last half decade as drives are outrageously big > > now. > > More-or-less yes. You forgot to mention emptying old home, but all > needed stuff is there.
I would say *instead of*, not *on top of*. And copying over is easy, when your new home is mounted via fstab. mkdir /oldhome mnt <oldhome> /oldhome cp -Rpu /oldhome/. /home/ Though you could, of course, do it in the other order, mounting <oldhome> as /home. But it would still be easy. Lisi -- 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/201504031001.43728.lisi.re...@gmail.com