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Re: x-fer /home to new drive?!



Ian Keith Setford wrote:
> 
> Yo-
> 
> 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.

-- 
Bruce Jackson

Linux:  because reboots are for hardware upgrades!


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