On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:10:19PM +0000, ben wrote: > anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've googled > and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info.
Hi,
Make backups :) ...
Buy insurance ...
- you can got to runlevel 1 ("init 1", no network, only root user)
(you might need to format the mount partition, mount it as /newhome,
you might want to use ext3 ... see "mkfs")
(allocate new partition, add new disk ...)
# mkfs -t ext3 -m0 /dev/my_new_partition_change_me
# cd /
# mkdir /newhome
# mount -t ext3 /dev/my_new_partition_change_me /newhome
# cp -Rdp /home/* /newhome
# umount /newhome
# umount /home
# mount /dev/my_new_partition_change_me /newhome
# check if it works ...
# check if it works ...
# keep the backup for a while.
I might be missing something, I'm sleepy.
Maybe I am deleting everything...
Please read the manpages before issuing commands :)
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and you are the easiest person to fool.
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