On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Silvio Siefke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > my hdd is full and on the free partion i want make the /home partion. > But how can make it? Copy and fstab? When i mount the partion over thunar > i can not write as user on the partion. > > /dev/sda3 on /run/media/siefke/data type ext4 > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) > > Has someone a advice for me? Thank you.
Here's how I'd do it. Take a backup first! At least a couple of these commands could result in massive data loss if you have a typo. It's also pretty important that you be logged in as root, and that no user whose home directory is under /home is currently logged in. # Create your target filesystem mkfs.ext4 $your_new_partition # Mount your target filesystem mount -t auto $your_new_partition /mnt/ # Copy your data to your target filesystem. cp -a /home/* /mnt/ Verify that the data that was in /home now exists in /mnt # Remove the data from /home/, as it will otherwise continue taking up space on your hard disk. rm -rf /home/* # Unmount your target filesystem, umount /mnt/ Modify /etc/fstab to mount $your_new_partition at /home # Mount your new /home mount /home -- :wq
