Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:01:43AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote: > > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location, copying > > > all the installed data from /home to it, then fixing fstab to mount that > > > drive on top of the existing /home directory? I have done that in the > > > past, but not in the last half decade as drives are outrageously big > > > now. > > > > More-or-less yes. You forgot to mention emptying old home, but all > > needed stuff is there. > > I would say *instead of*, not *on top of*. And copying over is easy, when > your new home is mounted via fstab.
Clarification needed (see below): > > mkdir /oldhome > > mnt <oldhome> /oldhome Is mnt an alias to 'mv'? Or 'mount -o bind'? Or something else? > > cp -Rpu /oldhome/. /home/ > > Though you could, of course, do it in the other order, mounting <oldhome> > as /home. But it would still be easy. I see at least one (minor) complication in such approach, and that is the user who uses such home right now. I mean, copying files that are being written to right now is kind of … unpredictable as far as results are concerned. But doing it correct way would probably require using LVM (snapshots), and LVM is one of those things that are either used from the start, or not used at all. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150403093547.ga6...@d1696.int.rdtex.ru
