how to change the home location

[Doug Stewart]

Thanks James I think it is all working now. Thanks for the help.
Somehow I ended up with it all being root so I used chown -R -P  etc.
I will try it for a week before I delete the old Home.

One comment about the widows swap file.
I found that it was important to have the swap file on a second hard drive.
What happens is:
If ram is full and you startup a new program then the os is reading the new
prog from one spot on the HD,
 and writing old data to the swap file on a different part of the HD. So the
head is doing many seeks.
 But if it is two HDs then the head on the read HD will stay at one place
and the swap file head will stay at one place and there is no thrashing of
the heads.

But now that we have much more ram they might have a better way of moving
old info to swap area during idle time so that we don't get what I saw
before.

Doug


2010/12/12 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
> 1. you can use gparted
> 2. http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/
> 3. doesn't matter performance wise swap is used kind of like the swap file
> in windows
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>  I am about to add a second hard drive to my system (Ubuntu 10.04)
>>  After I do the hardware installation,
>> How do I:
>>  1) format it.
>>  2) make my home folder to be on this new drive.
>>  3) should I also move the swap area to the new drive?
>>
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