Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[John LeMay <jlemay@xxxxxxxx>]

> Question 2, what would be the repercussions of adding a /home to a
> system that already exists? 

This shouldn't be too hard, especially since root's home is not in 
/home, it's /root.

- Login as root and setup the new partition that will be /home.
- Mount the new partition as /tmphome or something unique
- cd to the current /home and "cp -a * /tmphome"
- Edit your /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /home upon reboot
- mv the current /home to /oldhome so it will still be accessible post 
reboot - just in case
- mkdir /home and chmod it appropriately so you have a mount point for 
the new partition post reboot
- reboot

Double check the cp options - I did this off the top of my head and you 
may need another switch or two to grab everything. If all goes well, you 
can later rm -rf /oldhome to reclaim that disk space back into /.


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