Re: Mounting home to a different partition

In alt.os.linux.suse, on Tue 28 February 2006 07:05, Amnon Feiner
<none@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all

What i am trying to do is change my home partiton from the 9GB /Home I
have now to the 65 GB /storage. Am I better off stretching home, or is
there a reasonable way to do it?

If Kevin continues to maintain the alt.os.linux FAQ then this would be a
classic example for inclusion, so often has it been asked.

If there is unused space after the /home partition, you *could* resize
the partition after taking backups of *all* the contents onto another
medium, then backing up everything in the partition onto another
medium. However, this approach is not for the fainthearted.

The more classic approach is as follows:

1 Allocate another partition of the size you want
(or reuse another that you don't use for anything else)

2 Make the filesystem on the new partition

3 To ensure that you do not have anything running that will change the
contents of /home, log in as root on a virtual terminal (not a
Konsole under KDE or one of the equivalents), and issue the command

telinit 1

This will take you to single user mode

4 Mount the new partition as /new_home and issue the command

cp -a /home/* /new_home/

The -a will recurse through the subdirectories, will not follow
symlinks, but will preserve them as links, and will preserve
ownership, mode and timestamps.

This command will take some time.

5 umount /home

6 Edit the line in /etc/fstab that mounts /home to give it the device
of the /new_home partition. For example, if /home uses reiserfs on
/dev/hda11 and /new_home uses reiserfs on /dev/sdb3, you should
change the line that looks like

/dev/hda11 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2

to make it look like

/dev/sdb3 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2

7 mv /home /old_home

8 mv /new_home /home

9 Return to your usual graphical login by using telinit 5

Once you have been using the system for a while with no problems, you
can get rid of /old_home and reuse the partition for other things

HTH
HANDY
--
Robert HULL

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