Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Richard Bown <richard.bown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 08:46 -0400, Brian Blater (BBList) wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at  7:36 PM, in message
> <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
> 
> I think that about does it. Does this look correct?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian 
Just an observation:
If you copy the /home directory to /oldhome(or what ever), the Home
directory will still be there when you create the new /home directory on
the new  drive.
I'd be inclined to backup the home dir on to a dvd or cdrom then use
move (mv) top change the directory name, then copy in to the new home
dir.

Richard