On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 09:09:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 05:01:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > I would say *instead of*, not *on top of*. And copying over is easy, > > when your new home is mounted via fstab. > > > > mkdir /oldhome > > > > mnt <oldhome> /oldhome > > > > cp -Rpu /oldhome/. /home/ > > > > Though you could, of course, do it in the other order, mounting > > <oldhome> as /home. But it would still be easy. > > > > Lisi > > When I get to that point, I may bug you for details. ;-)
Why bother? The ISO from LinuxCNC installs within 15 minutes and will provide separate / and /home partitions and a swap partition of any chosen size. That's when done properly, of course. Compare that with the convolutions which are being planned and the time they will occupy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150403142358.gh22...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
