Re: firefox-37, where to put
On Friday 03 April 2015 09:29:15 Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:03:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64
> > > > >/cur rent /images/
> > > >
> > > > I'll get that when the new drives arrive.
> > > >
> > > > > Besides, nobody forbids you to create a separate filesystem
> > > > > for /home after the install.
> > > >
> > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary
> > > > location, copying all the installed data from /home to it, then
> > > > fixing fstab to mount that drive on top of the existing /home
> > > > directory? I have done that in the past, but not in the last
> > > > half decade as drives are outrageously big now.
> > >
> > > More-or-less yes. You forgot to mention emptying old home, but all
> > > needed stuff is there.
> > >
> > > > This also I think assumes the use of a LABEL=wheezyhome or some
> > > > such non-confusing name.
>
> Sure, you can. According to mke2fs(8) you should limit label length to
> 16 bytes, but that's plenty IMO.
>
> > > That's one way of doing this. You can also use UUID, plain-old
> > > device names (/dev/sdb1, or something), or /dev/disk/by-id if you
> > > want to be on the safe side.
> >
> > Device names are out on this machine as 3 of its drives are in a hot
> > swap cage. The device name stays with the slot. So its best I just
> > search the rack for the LABEL= when mounting stuff.
> >
> > But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another partition
> > over it, but I'd need a tutorial on how to do that since the .home
> > dir, once the 2nd drive is mounted oin top of it, isn't accessible.
>
> Lisi put it right. Don't mount a new home on top of an old one. Mount
> a filesystem for the new home elsewhere, move all files from old home
> to the new one, unmount new home, add a line into fstab, and mount new
> home.
That is essentially what I had in mind. But it seems to me I should be
booted in single mode and fetchmail never started in order to have
a "stable" /home to do the moveing from. And don't forget, that when
the cp is done, to look at it with an ls -l to make sure I still own my
stuff. That burnt me once yonks ago when I thought I was all done,
rebooted and found root:root owned everything. As Jackie Gleason was
fond of saying, what a revolting development that was. :(
> Use LiveCD in the case of doubt.
Scenario #2. :)
>
> > FWIW, I've
> > large boatload of stuff in /opt that I'd like to treat the same way.
> > Same problem with /opt. But I figure I'd do that too as it sure
> > would save days of copying stuff when upodateing an install.
>
> The way I see it - if you manage to move /home then you'll learn how
> to move /opt. The principle is the same.
>
> Reco
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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