Re: [Dorset] How do I "move" /home to a new partition?

2013-11-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > I want to "move" /home to a bigger, empty partition. > > So I created a new partition and in /etc/fstab I added it with a UUID > and mounted at /newhome. Then I rebooted and copied from /home to > /newhome with rsync. As root, with options to preserve the user, group, etc., of the fi

Re: [Dorset] How do I "move" /home to a new partition?

2013-11-13 Thread Peter Merchant
On 13/11/13 16:36, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi John, I want to "move" /home to a bigger, empty partition. So I created a new partition and in /etc/fstab I added it with a UUID and mounted at /newhome. Then I rebooted and copied from /home to /newhome with rsync. As root, with options to preserv

Re: [Dorset] How do I "move" /home to a new partition?

2013-11-13 Thread Justin Stringfellow
and chmod that. cheers, --justin From: JD To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 16:29 Subject: [Dorset] How do I "move" /home to a new partition? I want to "move" /home to a bigger, empty partition. So I

Re: [Dorset] How do I "move" /home to a new partition?

2013-11-13 Thread Simon P Smith
On 13/11/13 15:29, JD wrote: So I created a new partition and in /etc/fstab I added it with a UUID and mounted at /newhome. Then I rebooted and copied from /home to /newhome with rsync. What else should I have done? Being that I am incredible lazy, I create /home2, move the data and then m

[Dorset] How do I "move" /home to a new partition?

2013-11-13 Thread JD
I want to "move" /home to a bigger, empty partition. So I created a new partition and in /etc/fstab I added it with a UUID and mounted at /newhome. Then I rebooted and copied from /home to /newhome with rsync. Then I edited fstab again, changing /home to /oldhome and /newhome to /home. Upon