Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/08/06 06:46, Brian Blater (BBList) wrote:
>>>>On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at  7:36 PM, in message
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><9CABE881-FDF7-4A5B-98D9-EB7BEABC7AB8@xxxxxxx>, <suse_gasjr4wd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>>Or, better yet leave the 40 GB the boot disk and make the 80 GB home.
>>Having the 80 for home will free up space on the 40 for the other  
>>partitions,  but the home partitions usually take up the most space  
>>as that is where all your "stuff" is.
>>
>>    
>
>I think I will give this a shot and put the 40G back as the main drive and mount /home to the 80G. Since I've never done this before, let me know if these are the correct steps:
>1. copy -a or tar /home to /oldhome.
>2. partition new drive
>3. mkdir /home on new drive
>4. mount new drive and move the old /oldhome files to /home
>5. modify /etc/fstab to include /dev/hdxx /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 3
logout all users
login as root
mv /home /oldhome
make /etc/fstab entry for /home
mount /home
move contents of /oldhome to /home
delete /oldhome and contents (rm -R /oldhome, IIRC)