Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

[aggeyl <aggeyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For ages I used a separate /home partition so I could try lots of different
distros easily and so I didn't have to keep moving everything else (ie
everything in the folder hierarchy apart from /home) over to a new hard
drive as my music and video collection increased, and for these
reasons  I did find it quite handy. However I found a simpler way to
do the same thing - with a simpler set-up    it is a big pain to
do properly, and I found that just using simple symlinks instead was very
simple and easy to maintain - just keep your home directory on the home
drive, make the folders you need, and then make links pointing at the
folders you have on the storage hard drive. If the only reason you're
thinking of creating a separate /home partition, then using symlinks is a
great way to go that doesn't stuff around with UUIDs or fstab. Give it a
try, and if you're not sure what I'm talking about and can't find anything
through Google, pass us a message and I'll give you more complete
instructions.

andy gee

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:57:30
+1100 (EST), Alex Samad <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>   On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at
> 07:31:10PM +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote:
> >
> > On 09/02/2008, at 7:00 PM, bill wrote:
> >> create /home on /hda3
> >
> > No, you just mount /dev/hda3 /mnt and
> > cp -a /home/* /mnt/
> >
> >> rename original /home for safety until relocated home is verified
> to 
> >> work
> >>
> >> edit /etc/fstab - change current entry for /hda3 to:-
> >>
> >> /dev/hda3   /home   ext3   defaults,errors=remount -ro     0  
> 1
> >>
> > then
> >
> > mv /home /home.old
> > mkdir /home
> > umount /mnt
> > mount /home
> I would do it slightly differently
>
> (boot into single user mode)
> cd /
> mv /home /home.orig
> mkdir /home
> mount /home   # Assumnig that fstab is fixed up to mount /dev/hda3 onto
> /home
> do a ls -l /home.orig and set the permissions on the new /home (you need to
> do 
> this after the mount so that the permissions get added to the mount
> partition
>
> rysnc -av /home.orig/* /home/ (this will save symlink and permissions and
> other 
> stuff )
>
> then reboot
>
> once you check everything is working fine rm -fr /home.orig
>
> A
>
>
> >
> > you probably want to do that in single user mode.
> >
> >> I shouldn't need to change the UUID for /hda3 in /dev/disk/by_UUID
> but 
> >> will need to change th epartiton label in /dev/disk/by_label I 
> >> believe.
> >>
> >> Please confirm that the above is correct, or point out any errors
> if 
> >> applicable.
> >>
> >> After lots of Web searching I've spent hours recently changing
> UUID's 
> >> and disk/partition labels due to moving HDs from another PC ( I
> >> currently have 3 IDE and 2 SATA HD's plus a DVDRW in this PC) and
> don't 
> >> want to stuff this up.
> >>
> >> Everything was so much easier before UUID.
> >
> > You're not using the uuid, so you can ignore it.
> >
> > -- 
> > Michael Chesterton
> > http://chesterton.id.au/blog/
> > http://barrang.com.au/
> >
> >
> >
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