[PLUG] Moving /home directory

[Eli Stair]

That's it just do a 'cp -a' or equivalent, though you might want to
consider having 'nosuid' set on the homedir mount also.  Especially
useful if you run a public_html out of it, for safety.

/eli

On 5/12/05, Reid Leake <reidleake at comcast.net> wrote:
> When I performed my latest install, I did not specify a mount point
> for /home - it is just in the normal place in the filesystem, under root
> (/).  I have freed another HD of dreaded NTFS, and want to use it (well
> a partition on it) as my /home directory.  I added this to
> my /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/hdb1       /home     reiser4 notail,noatime     0     0
> 
> Is there anything else I need to do besides move my files from the
> old /home to the new partition (hdb1) to make this transition?
> If so, this sure is easier than certain 'other' OSes.
> I am running Ubuntu, which is Debian based, if that makes a difference.
> 
> Thanks,
> Reid
> 
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