On Friday 03 April 2015 09:36:33 The Wanderer wrote: > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another > >> partition over it, but I'd need a tutorial on how to do that since > >> the .home dir, once the 2nd drive is mounted oin top of it, isn't > >> accessible. FWIW, I've large boatload of stuff in /opt that I'd > >> like to treat the same way. Same problem with /opt. But I figure > >> I'd do that too as it sure would save days of copying stuff when > >> upodateing an install. > > > > /home is a mount point, not a partition. You don't mount anything > > over it, you mount something on it. So you mount your new home > > partition on the /home mount point. You then mount your old home > > partition on another mount point and copy the data from it to your > > new home partition. > > It's not quite this simple if /home isn't a separate partition to > begin with, but is just a directory under the root partition, which I > believe Gene stated is the case he's dealing with.
That is correct, the installers partitioner would not allow it any other way. > It can still be done, with the slightly different set of steps Reco > described (mount new elsewhere, move existing into new, unmount new > from elsewhere, mount new to /home and modify fstab) - but being sure > you're doing it cleanly requires either making _certain_ no one other > than root is logged in Thats easy, I'm "it". :) > during the move process or using a LiveCD (to > make sure that, effectively, no user on the affected system is logged > in _at all_ during that process). Is booting with the single option on the kernels command line insufficient for this scenario? 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> -- 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/201504031035.37991.ghesk...@wdtv.com