Re: Separate /home drive?

["David Palmer." <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:57:50 +0100
Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> David Palmer. (<davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>) wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, it is possible. If you do not yet have installed Debian, create the
> two partitions (you can do this during the installation). Next format
> and mount them. The installation program lets you choose where you want
> to mount your partitions, choose /home for the home partition.
> 
> If you already have installed Debian, create a new partition, format it
> (for example with mke2fs if you want to use ext2 or ext3). Next, mount
> it somewhere, move your stuff from /home to the new partition (/don't/
> move the home dir itself there, only it's contents), unmount it and
> remount it in /home. Now all you have to do is to add a line to your
> fstab to have it mounted at boottime automatically.
> 
> best regards
>         Andreas Janssen
> 
Thank you Paul, Andreas, Miernik and Ron.
Regards,

David.