The sd card should be a device called /dev/mmcblk0 and you will want to format and partition the SD card as using the FAT32 partition that is already there is the best option. Use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 then ctrl-c that after a few seconds. This *will* delete everything on that sd card, so make sure that you have your data backed up.
Next create a partition on the now blank sd card (I am a fan of cfdisk for older devices, it will not work on large GUID drives like 3 TB and up). sudo cfdisk /dev/mmcblk0 Next format that new partition, likely called /dev/mmcblk0p1 with the ext2 file system (minimizes write wear over ext3/4 or any other modern file system). mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcblk0p1 Next you want to find the UUID of this device: ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid On my system I see something like this: 7e340f32-0cf1-4b5d-ab56-b301bdcd8376 -> ../../mmcblk0p1 Then you can mount this somewhere temporary: sudo mkdir /mnt/newhome sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/newhome Copy your home folders to the new device (pay attention to the forward slashes, they do matter): sudo rsync -rvaP /home/ /mnt/newhome Edit your fstab to add a line to mount the new partition automatically, like on boot: sudoedit /etc/fstab UUID=7e340f32-0cf1-4b5d-ab56-b301bdcd8376 /home ext2 defaults 0 0 Either create a root password (sudo passwd) and login to the shell (after exiting the GUI environment) as root or use a live boot environment for this next part. We are moving the old home out of the way and creating a new mount point so we cannot be logged in as a standard user. Because we are root we do not need sudo. mv /home /old.home mkdir /home chmod 755 /home mount -a Verify that the data is there with "ls -l /home". At this point you should be able to log in nad have your home directory on the SD card. It will be very very slow as a class 10 only writes at 10 MB/sec, a high quality USB2 device can more than double that. Of course the 8 GB SSD in these things is pretty brutal anyway. Once you have verified that everything is working, you should be able to remove /old.home with a "sudo rm -fr /old.home" There are many steps, many of which can lead to data loss. Make sure that you backup the data. I would also verify the steps above to make sure that I did not make a mistake. It is 4 am after all. I make no warranties or guarantees that the steps above do not contain mistakes or errors that may or may not eat all of your data. If it were me, I would just buy a cheap Core i3 laptop instead. I have a strong dislike for the entire Atom series of processors (I have a lot of painful experiences with them). I have not tried the brand new "Bay Trail/Silvermont" processor yet, supposedly it does not suck, but it doesn't matter since there are few devices that have it. Best of luck, On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Chris Brake <chris.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you getting any error messages? > Or just not sure where to start? > > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 4:30 PM, TekBudda <tekbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> In the interest of trying to breathing some new life into old tech I >> have installed Xubuntu (With LXDE as well) on my wife's old 8 GB EEEPC >> which was also upgraded to 1 GB of RAM. >> >> I picked up an inexpensive 32GB SD-Card in the hopes of moving the home >> drive to their & allowing the 8 GB to be used for the system. So far I >> have been unable to do it & wondered if I cam missing something. >> >> I have DDG'd (DuckDuckGo'd) & so far anything I have found hasn't been >> successful. For example...changing the shortcut for the various folder >> to a new location. >> >> Ideas? Suggestions? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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