Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:04:18 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > Note that: > > > rm -rf /home/* won't get rid of those pesky dot files > > > rm -rf /home/.

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:50:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Question: What is the 'sync' for? I haven't done this before and am > wondering what I've been missing. > sync forces the kernel to finish writing to disk. The man page says, "Force changed blocks to disk, update the super blo

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:02:08 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, indeed, although I have been known to have a /home/.system > directory in the past that contained stuff I'd moved from other > filesystems due to a lack of disk space in the right places. Ah, hokay. --

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:33:17AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1 mkfs.ext3 is a better option at this point. > move data to new partition with > mv /home/* /mnt/home2 cp -ax /home/ /mnt/home Make sure everything looks good twice,

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > rm -rf /home (gets rid of old stuff) > mkdir /home (you still need a /home as a mount point) > > Note that: > rm -rf /home/* won't get rid of those pesky dot files > rm -rf /home/.* get

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:50:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Question: What is the 'sync' for? I haven't done this before and am > wondering what I've been missing. Forces a disk flush on all mounted filesystems. Any user may run sync. - -

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:31:49PM -0400, alex wrote:> > How would you create new swap and /home partitions om hdb so Debian > would use these instead of the original /home and swap? Take a look at the Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO and the parted manual,

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > Note that: > > rm -rf /home/* won't get rid of those pesky dot files > > rm -rf /home/.* gets rid of a little bit too much... > > Doh! Yeah, you're right. Forgot that m

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:02:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:33:55AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:04:18 +0100 > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:33:55AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:04:18 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > > Note that: > > > > rm -

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:33:17AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 17:31, alex wrote: > > Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap > > and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. > > > > Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

Thanks all a lot of good info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > mv /home/* /mnt/home2 > get rid of old home directory with > rmdir /home I would not remove /home, because you will need it for a mount point. You have moved everything out of it; so it should be empty. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

> mkdir /b2 > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /b2 > > # Drop to single user; kills any pesky daemons writing stuff in background. > telinit 1 > > # Anything here we don't understand? If not, proceed. > cd /home && ls -la > > # Copy everything whose name does not start with a dot. > cp -a * /b2 &&

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 17:31, alex wrote: > Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap > and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. > > Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap > and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keepin

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

>Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap >and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. >Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap >and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping / on >the original hda. # Get a root shell

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:31, alex wrote: > How would you create new swap and /home partitions om hdb so Debian > would use these instead of the original /home and swap? First create the new partitions using cfdisk or fdisk (cfdisk is easier to use) and then remove the old swop partition, edit /

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

Hello alex (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap > and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. > > Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap > and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping