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On 28/04/10 14:00, Chris Martin wrote:
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Peter.<br>
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This the short version...<br>
Contact me if you need more specific instructions<br>
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A few suggestions, given that this was the short version. :-)<br>
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Once you have the drive installed.<br>
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use "gparted" - this is a GUI tool that will partition and format the
new disk<br>
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I'm not sure if gparted allows you to specify a label for the
filesystem. If it doesn't, then you can add one later (with e2label),
but i would strongly recommend adding a label, since then it makes no
difference where the disk is connected. I would suggest a label of
something like "/home".<br>
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type="cite"> The mount it in a convenient location (say /mnt)<br>
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Copy your existing /home to /mnt - takeing care to preserve permissions
and ownership<br>
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rsync is probably the best way to do this: you would run "rsync -SHavx
/home/ /mnt/" (don't miss the trailing slashes).<br>
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type="cite"> umount /mnt,<br>
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mount your drive as /home - this will replace the directory /home with
the content of the drive (however the original data in /home will still
be preserved, just not accessible while the drive is mounted)<br>
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test.. test.. test..<br>
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if all goes well, unmount /home,<br>
double check it is unmounted ... and check again<br>
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delete the origional /home contents<br>
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mount the drive as /home (again)<br>
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Great advice there - mounting over the contents allows an absolutely
painless recovery method if it doesn't work: just unmount the
filesystem and you're back exactly where you were.<br>
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type="cite">edit /etc/fstab to make the change persistant across
reboot and have /home mounted automatically on reboot<br>
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When you edit fstab, use LABEL=/home for the device instead of
/dev/sdb1 or whatever you've been using so far. That way, you can move
the drive around without any issues.<br>
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Paul<br>
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