how to change the home location

[James]

That is true, two heads are better than one ;)

2010/12/12 Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>

> Thanks James I think it is all working now. Thanks for the help.
> Somehow I ended up with it all being root so I used chown -R -P  etc.
> I will try it for a week before I delete the old Home.
>
> One comment about the widows swap file.
> I found that it was important to have the swap file on a second hard drive.
> What happens is:
> If ram is full and you startup a new program then the os is reading the new
> prog from one spot on the HD,
>  and writing old data to the swap file on a different part of the HD. So
> the head is doing many seeks.
>  But if it is two HDs then the head on the read HD will stay at one place
> and the swap file head will stay at one place and there is no thrashing of
> the heads.
>
> But now that we have much more ram they might have a better way of moving
> old info to swap area during idle time so that we don't get what I saw
> before.
>
> Doug
>
>
> 2010/12/12 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
>
> > 1. you can use gparted
> > 2. http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/
> > 3. doesn't matter performance wise swap is used kind of like the swap
> file
> > in windows
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>  I am about to add a second hard drive to my system (Ubuntu 10.04)
> >>  After I do the hardware installation,
> >> How do I:
> >>  1) format it.
> >>  2) make my home folder to be on this new drive.
> >>  3) should I also move the swap area to the new drive?
> >>
> >> Doug
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