Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username
Hi,
I have not investigated all the postings ...
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:20:49PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> I re-tried exactly the same thing, but with the same contents on both
> HDDs (proved with a diff). I had to use
>
> # cp --recursive --update .[a-zA-Z0-9]* /mnt/mymnttosdc5
The root cause of problem is you used "cp --recursive --update * blh ...".
Since things may have messed up somewhere, it is better to do it over.
# cd /mnt/mymnttosdc5
# rm -rf * .*
rm: cannot remove directory `.'
rm: cannot remove directory `..'
# cd
# cp -a ./ /mnt/mymnttosdc5
# vim /etc/fstab
... set up mount for your new home for next boot
# mount -t auto /dev/sdc5 /mnt/mymnttosdc5
Check how things are working.
Of OK, reboot.
Check how things are working again.
> If the only way to make it is to use the symlink, no problem, but the
> `cd'-related question still remains...
Did you set up fstab. Read "man 8 mount".
Also:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch09.en.html#_optimization_of_filesystem_by_mount_options
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch09.en.html#_data_storage_tips
Osamu
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