On Friday 03 April 2015 16:53:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 11:38:02 David Wright wrote: > > Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm): > > > 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, > > > > Quite right. If you mount a partition over a directory with files in > > it, then those files are (a) inaccessible while the mount is there and > > (b) taking up space (in / in your case). > > > > > > /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) > > > > I would do it slightly differently. There's no virtue in using the > > original /home directory as the mount point for the new home > > partition. > > > > Boot into single > > > > Mount new partition "fred" on /mnt (which is what it's for) > > > > Copy the files. (I use find | cpio -damp myself, which is capable of > > cloning a running root filesystem) > > > > Rename /home to /oldhome (or whatever) > > > > mkdir /home > > > > unmount "fred" from /mnt and mount it on /home > > > > Add "fred" to fstab > > > > Back to normal runlevel > > > > Archive/compare/check/prune/remove /oldhome at leisure. > > > > "fred" stands for whatever name you know the new partition by, > > be it kernel device, LABEL, UUID or whatever. Please don't actually > > call it "wheezyhome", though. That's doubly overloaded. > > This makes far more sense for an after the fact setup.
Agreed - where everything is in one partition. Thanks from me too, David. Lisi > Thanks David. > > > Cheers, > > David. > > 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/201504031708.55151.lisi.re...@gmail.com
