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 /. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions