Re: x-fer /home to new drive?!
Ian Keith Setford wrote:
>
> Yo-
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> I have had my sytem running on a WD 2.1G for over a year but I just bought
> a Mylex SCSI card and a WD Enterprise drive. I have everything working
> fine but now I want to mount /home on its own partition on the new faster
> drive. What is the best way to accomplish this? Is it even advisable?
>
> TIA,
>
> -Ian
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The easist way is to use midnight commander. Mount the new partition
and copy /home there, change the fstab to mount at boot time and voila
/home has been moved. That is what I did.
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Bruce Jackson
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