Re: firefox-37, where to put
On Friday 03 April 2015 16:53:53 Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
Agreed - where everything is in one partition. Thanks from me too, David.
Lisi
> Thanks David.
>
> > Cheers,
> > David.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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