On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:13:36PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: | Hi all. | | I have a new 12G hard drive to install in my server. | I'm using qmail, so Maidirs are in $HOME directories. I want to | use the new disk to mount /home. | | I want any sugestions about how to move the actual /home to the | new one, without having to worry about user permissions. | Is there any other way than simple tar/cp/untar or cp -rf?
Log in as root and be sure nothing is running that wants to use /home. (adding 'single' to the kernel options when you boot is probably a good idea) # cd / # mv home foo # mkdir home # mount /dev/new_disk home # cd foo # mv * ../home # cd .. # rmdir foo # reboot This should work fine. It worked for me when I switched from RH to Debian (I move /home from the other partition to the RH root partition so I could install Debian there, later I moved /home to the Debian partition and made a symlink from RH's / directory). Since you will have the same system (ie /etc/passwd) the UIDs and GIDs won't be changing at all. HTH, -D
