On 2017-10-26 11:35, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Hello,
My present install uses 3 partitions, / (30Gb, btrfs), /home (30 Gb, xfs)and /data, the last for large file storing (around 400Gb, xfs). no lvm.
I want to install an other distro (ubuntu) to test some special config only documented on ubuntu
AFAIK it's not possible to reduce the size of an xfs filesystem :-(
So Here what I did:
* copy (rsync, as root) my /home to /data/home-active folder * coment out the /home line in fstab * adding in fstab /data/home-actif /home none bind"
it seems to work, but before trashing the original /home partition I would like to know if all is ok, specially in the fstab line
It is simple: reboot to your new setup, confirm that /home is not mounted, confirm that you can login and that things work, then go ahead, looks good :-) If in doubt, just rsync home to another disk for backup. See my notes on rsync on another post. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)