On Friday 03 April 2015 05:01:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > 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
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