Re: Separate /home drive?
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:46:03 -0600
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> David Palmer. wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been reading different partitioning howtos but can't find any
> > reference to a situation I thought I would like to install.
> > It's probably a newbie idea, but I wondered if it would be possible
> > to have system partitions on one drive, and posting to /home on
> > another. If it is possible,
>
> Sure, easy.
>
> does anybody have a reference they could point me to?
>
>
> It depends on where you're starting from. Assuming you have a
> functional system, and you've just added in a new drive:
>
> 1) Partition the new drive, say "cfdisk /dev/hdb". To keep things
> conceptually easy here, we'll assume the entire drive will be one
> partition. So create a new partition, using the entire drive. It'll be
>
> of type "linux".
>
> 2) Format the new partition, say "mkfs /dev/hdb1".
>
> 3) Inform /etc/fstab of the new partition, say:
>
> /dev/hdb1 /home ext2 rw 0 2
>
> 4) Temporarily mount your new partition, say:
> mkdir /tmpHome
> mount /dev/hdb1 /tmpHome
>
> 5) Copy over your existing /home directory, say "cp -a /home/
> /tmpHome"
>
> 6) Switch to single user mode, say "init S".
>
> 7) Make sure /home is not mounted, say
> mount
> if it's mounted, "umount /home"
>
> 8) Rename your current home directory, say "mv /home /home.bak"
>
> 9) Create a new home directory, with the same permissions/ownership as
>
> the old one, say:
> mkdir /home
> ls -ld /home.bak (to see old perms)
> chown and chmod as necessary
>
> 10) Mount the new directory to make sure it looks right, say:
> mount /home
>
> 11) Return to normal mode, say "init 2".
>
> That should do it.
>
> --
> Kent
>
Thanks for that.
I don't understand what half of it means, but finding out is what it's
all about.
Regards,
David.
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