On Friday 03 April 2015 10:01:43 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
SHOULD BE: mount <oldhome> /oldhome My thanks to Reco for drawing this to my attention. Lisi > > 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/201504031227.16963.lisi.re...@gmail.com
