Hi. On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:36:33AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 04/03/2015 at 09:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:03:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> But you mentioned cleaning out /home when mounting another > >> partition over it, but I'd need a tutorial on how to do that since > >> the .home dir, once the 2nd drive is mounted oin top of it, isn't > >> accessible. FWIW, I've large boatload of stuff in /opt that I'd > >> like to treat the same way. Same problem with /opt. But I figure > >> I'd do that too as it sure would save days of copying stuff when > >> upodateing an install. > > > > /home is a mount point, not a partition. You don't mount anything > > over it, you mount something on it. So you mount your new home > > partition on the /home mount point. You then mount your old home > > partition on another mount point and copy the data from it to your > > new home partition. > > It's not quite this simple if /home isn't a separate partition to begin > with, but is just a directory under the root partition, which I believe > Gene stated is the case he's dealing with. > > It can still be done, with the slightly different set of steps Reco > described (mount new elsewhere, move existing into new, unmount new from > elsewhere, mount new to /home and modify fstab) - but being sure you're > doing it cleanly requires either making _certain_ no one other than root > is logged in during the move process
I beleive they invented single-user mode specifically to be sure of such things, aren't they? > or using a LiveCD (to make sure > that, effectively, no user on the affected system is logged in _at all_ > during that process). Using a LiveCD simplifies things somewhat indeed. 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/20150403134755.gi10...@d1696.int.rdtex.ru
