On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:32:34AM -0700, Eric L. Damron wrote:
> I want to move the home directory away from my system disk onto a larger
> disk. What files to I need to edit to make everything point to the right
> things?
(We'll assume /dev/hdb2 is the new partition)
First, create the new partition and format it.
fdisk /dev/hdb
n
2
w
mke2fs /dev/hdb2
Second, mount the partition somewhere.
mkdir /mnt/new-home
mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/new-home
Third, copy the existing /home directories to the new drive.
cp -a /home/* /mnt/new-home/.
Fourth, unmount the new partition.
umount /mnt/new-home
Fourth, edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new mount point.
/dev/hdb2 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
Fifth, test the new partition to ensure the copy worked well.
mount /home
If everything looks okay, we're all set (almost). If things are wrong, just
unmount the filesystem, you've still got all of your old /home stuff
available to make another pass at the copying.
Sixth, clean up and go!
umount /home
rm -rf /home
# this step may seem odd, but it's really true.
# When you mount the new /home partition, anything that
# was on the old /home will still be using disk space,
# but you won't be able to get to it.
# You want to remove it so you get the disk space back.
mount /home
Good luck!
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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