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Re: Moving /home to its own partition.



On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 17:31, alex wrote:
> Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap 
> and / and you have accumulated much data in /home.
> 
> Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap 
> and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping / on 
> the original hda.
> 
> How would you create new swap and /home  partitions om hdb so Debian 
> would use these instead of the original /home and swap?
Hi Alex,
This is the basic step -- THIS IS NOT TESTED.  wait for a few GURUS to
debug.
edit partition table with
cfdisk /dev/hdb
create file system with
mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1 
mount new partition with
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/home2
move data to new partition with
mv /home/* /mnt/home2
get rid of old home directory with
rmdir /home
modify /etc/fstab to point to new partition with
edit /etc/fstab
add "/dev/hdb1 /home ext2 ?????? 1 1" (not sure what to put for ????)
make changes active with
reboot

the swap is similar:
cfdisk /dev/hdb
mkswap /dev/hdb2
edit /etc/fstab by changing /dev/<old-swap> to /dev/hdb2
reboot
> 
> Additionally, how could you best utilize the space gained by 
> transferring data from the original /home to the new /home partition?
> 
> alex
> 
> 



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