Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

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On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:31:49PM -0400, alex wrote:>
> How would you create new swap and /home  partitions om hdb so Debian 
> would use these instead of the original /home and swap?

Take a look at the Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO and the parted manual,
these will probably be quite helpful.  qtparted is also nice, however,
it lacks many features with ext2/3 support.

http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=parted
http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=qtparted
http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

> Additionally, how could you best utilize the space gained by 
> transferring data from the original /home to the new /home partition?

Depends on your needs.

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