On Friday 03 April 2015 05:35:49 Reco wrote: > 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.
Tried twice back when it was all the rage when fedora was fairly new. Both installs self-destructed in under 2 weeks. I've no clue if its ready for "prime time" today or not. But haveing been twice burnt, I am wary and avoid it. And of course I eventually got tired of being used for a guinea pig as its survival rates were relatively poor. > Reco Thanks Reco. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- 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/201504030915.42359.ghesk...@wdtv.com
