[PLUG] Moving /home directory

[Rich Shepard]

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On Thu, 12 May 2005, Reid Leake wrote:

> 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?

Reid,

   The entry in /etc/fstab does two things: 1) allows for automounts during
reboots and 2) allows root to mount the new filesystem manually.

   What I suggest you do is a four-step process[1]:

   1.  'mv /home /home-old' # this prevents having two filesystems with the
 				same name but mounted at different points.

   2.	(as root) 'mount /dev/hdb1 /home'

   3.  (as you) 'cd /home; cp -a /home-old/* .' # copy all from old to new.

   4.	'rm -rf /home-old/*' # Once you're sure everything is where it should
 				be.

   Then you can do as you wish with the home-old/, including rmdir.

HTH,

Rich

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[1]  I know that if I've left off something important a bunch of other
PLUGgers will let you know, and let me have it for being clueless and
offering flawed advice. This message comes without warranty and as-is.
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