On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 17:35:19 +1030
Paul Schulz p...@mawsonlakes.org wrote:
Hi Simon,
Hi both.
I'd start by logging in as root (naughty on Ubuntu perhaps, but means
your not accessing files in your users ~ while doing all this stuff).
Have you installed the drive yet? Specifically, what device does it
come up as? To list available disks, use..
# fdisk -l
It should be something like /dev/sdb
The steps to setup what you're after are:
0. Partition new drive (fdisk /dev/sdb)
This is optional for most operations (Linux can read the device raw),
but required if you want to access the data from another OS.
1. Format new drive (mke2fs)
I'd go with `mkfs.ext3`
1a. Adjust filesystem parameters (tune2fs)
I usually skip this (but if you need special setups you'll want to do
it)
2. Mount drive in a temporary location (/mnt/sdb1)
3. Copy /home (tar cf - -C /home . | tar xpf - -C /mnt/sdb1)
`rsync -av /home/* /mnt/sdb1` would be another option
4. Remount disk at /home
(umount /mnt/sdb1; mount /dev/sdb1 /home)
Before doing this you might want to consider removing all the data
currently in /home/
If you leave it all there, you gain no space on your existing
filesystem from adding the new drive.
5. Make mounting automatic.. edit '/etc/fstab'
A couple of tips:
- Enable root logins before testing. (Add a root password)
You can boot into root without a password from GRUB iirc.
- When happy, login as root, unmount /home and delete any of the
unwanted data in the mow hidden /home
I do this further up, but this is probably safer.
When you're happy that you've done everything correctly, you can
disable root logins.
Ann alternative, which I feel works better.. skip step 4, and
remount the new disk at /users, (or some other new location)
then edit /etc/password to make the users's home directory
to be '/users/username' rather than '/home/username'.
IMHO, for a single (or even multi user) desktop, changing /home/ makes
more sense then fiddling the configs like this.
kk
This has the benefit of keeping everything accessible, and obvious,
particularly is anything should go wrong.
Cheers,
Paul
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