On Wed,03.Sep.08, 15:50:42, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. When debian first installs, it gives the option of separating > the home directory (and some other directories) into a separate > partition. I did not choose this option, and instead went for the > recommended newbie option of everything in one partition. However, now > I think it would be a good idea to separate stuff. Is there a way to > rerun that aspect of the install, or, if not, another way to do this? This is how you could do it to separate /home (one of the first candidates to consider):
1. create the new partition
1a. optionally label it (recommended if you have multiple disks)
2. boot from some live CD
3. copy everything in /home to the new partition
4. create a new line in fstab to mount the partion at /home
5. boot with the new config and look for problems
6. if everything is ok boot again from a live CD
7. delete all contents of /home (the dir not the partition) to reclaim
the space
This method should be safe also for /usr and /var though for a separate
/home you just need to make sure no user (except root) is logged in and
for /var switching to runlevel 1 should be enough.
Be careful when calculating the needed space for partitions or you could
run into trouble.
Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
