Separate /home partition

[Mike McMullin]

On November 15, 2010 06:59:51 am Thiago Cavalcante wrote:
> 2010/11/15 Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com>:
> > going slightly OT, I recently filled my main hard drive and have
> > purchased a new 1TB hard drive.
> > How do I transfer my /home onto this new drive?
> > Jacob Mansfield
> > Programmer
> > --
> > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> 
> Format the new disk, copy the files from /home and change it to
> /etc/fstab with the new path.

  I'd make an alteration or two here, assuming a bootable live CD, install and 
format new HD, copy over /home, edit fstab to pint to the new hd, *rename 
/home to /home-old or some such requires sudo as will fixing the fstab.  IIRC 
turning a directory into a mount point will blank any info in it.  This way 
the OP will have a backup copy of /home, which can be deleted at a later 
point.