Re: migrating /home to a new partition
Jacob S. wrote:
much good advice. Just a couple little tips that might make things easier:
Once you're satisfied that everything's
on /new_home, "rm -r /home" (Note: there's no turning back after you
enter that command... double and triple check that things are like you
want before you delete the old /home),
If you have enough space on your root partition (assuming that's where
/home was) to leave the original /home directory and files around for a
while, you can just
# mv /home /home.old
# chmod 0 home.old
before you
# mkdir /home
That will keep the files around, but prevent anything from using them.
It can also be done without using a boot floppy/cd, but it's a lot
harder because you are deleting files that might be in use currently for
any users that are logged in, etc. The use of a boot floppy/cd is
strongly recommended!
# telinit s
will bring the system to single user mode and shut down most services.
# lsof | grep /home
will tell you if any processes have files open in /home (you might need
to apt-get install lsof)
# telinit 2
will bring it back up to multi-user mode
That's one of the (many) nice things about Linux -- you rarely need to
reboot for normal maintainance.
Randy
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