Re: firefox-37, where to put

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>]

On Friday 03 April 2015 11:38:02 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting The Wanderer (wanderer@fastmail.fm):
> > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >> 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. FWIW,
>
> Quite right. If you mount a partition over a directory with files in
> it, then those files are (a) inaccessible while the mount is there and
> (b) taking up space (in / in your case).
>
> > > /home is a mount point, not a partition.  You don't mount anything
> > > over it, you mount something on it.  So you mount your new home
> > > partition on the /home mount point.  You then mount your old home
> > > partition on another mount point and copy the data from it to your
> > > new home partition.
> >
> > It's not quite this simple if /home isn't a separate partition to
> > begin with, but is just a directory under the root partition, which
> > I believe Gene stated is the case he's dealing with.
> >
> > It can still be done, with the slightly different set of steps Reco
> > described (mount new elsewhere, move existing into new, unmount new
> > from elsewhere, mount new to /home and modify fstab)
>
> I would do it slightly differently. There's no virtue in using the
> original /home directory as the mount point for the new home
> partition.
>
> Boot into single
>
> Mount new partition "fred" on /mnt (which is what it's for)
>
> Copy the files. (I use find | cpio -damp myself, which is capable of
> cloning a running root filesystem)
>
> Rename /home to /oldhome (or whatever)
>
> mkdir /home
>
> unmount "fred" from /mnt and mount it on /home
>
> Add "fred" to fstab
>
> Back to normal runlevel
>
> Archive/compare/check/prune/remove /oldhome at leisure.
>
> "fred" stands for whatever name you know the new partition by,
> be it kernel device, LABEL, UUID or whatever. Please don't actually
> call it "wheezyhome", though. That's doubly overloaded.

This makes far more sense for an after the fact setup.

Thanks David.

> Cheers,
> David.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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