Creating /home partition

[Clive Menzies]

On (16/06/06 14:35), Yorvik wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
> >Format the new partition using fdisk or cfdisk
> >
> >Mount the new partition as something like newhome.
> Done that
> >
> >Copy (or rsync) all files and directories to newhome
> Do I copy the home folder and it's contents or just it's contents?
> 
Just the contents

> >
> >Edit /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /home
> >
> >either reboot or unmount newhome and then do
> >
> ># mount -a
> >

In your other reply you wanted to know about deleting the existing
contents; it's probably not strictly necessary but I would.  However, I
would check the new partition works before doing so.

Once you've tested the new setup:

# comment out the line in /etc/fstab which mounts the new partition as
# /home

reboot

make sure the new partition isn't mounted (if you've commented it
correctly it shouldn't be)

Delete all the files in /home

Uncomment the line in /etc/fstab and then:

# mount -a

and you should be hot to trot :)

Regards

Clive

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