[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Re: [LUG] moving /home]

[Christopher Swift]

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/
Paul, perhaps the above link would've been helpful. I'm not sure if you are
forwarding a solution or if you are forwarding your error (I didn't take the
time to read the entire message).

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:

> attached message with regard to moving /home to a new partition so i have
> more space for my files etc
>
> Paul
>
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> Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:41:11PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
> >
> >> formatting the drive,  dragging / dropping the contents of /home to the
> >> new drive and editing fstab or mtab (or whatever) to point to the new
> >> /home mount point seems far too simple.
> >>
> >
> > This is unix. It is that simple.
> >
> > Format the drive, mount it on /mnt/tmp-home or something, copy
> > everything in /home to /mnt/tmp-home, then update /etc/fstab to mount
> > the new drive on /home.
> >
> >
>
> Ok this still isn't working
>
> /sda7 is now newly formatted to ext3
> /sda5 is my current /home parition
> contents of /sda5/ have been copied over with cp -a
>
> my old fstab file looks like this
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/sda1
> UUID=5fe0b542-d40b-455e-8bc4-ef64b819639d /               ext3
> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/sda5
> UUID=9b5fd981-043b-4960-99a0-37fb7a3dbcc1 /home           ext2
> relatime        0       2
> # /dev/sda6
> UUID=c3cc4e3f-eb87-4e21-bf7a-28ddca9de2d3 none            swap
> sw              0       0
> #/dev/sda7 UUID=d15c6c4a-61dc-4792-bd77-3d0e297f2bf0  ext3        0 0
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
> /dev/scd2       /media/cdrom2   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
>
> this one works allows me to log in
>
> the one I am trying toedit looks like this
> /dev/scd2       /media/cdrom2   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
> psutton at desktop:~$
> psutton at desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab.bak2
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/sda1
> UUID=5fe0b542-d40b-455e-8bc4-ef64b819639d /               ext3
> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/sda5
> UUID=9b5fd981-043b-4960-99a0-37fb7a3dbcc1 /old_home           ext2
> relatime        0       2
> # /dev/sda6
> UUID=c3cc4e3f-eb87-4e21-bf7a-28ddca9de2d3 none            swap
> sw              0       0
>
> #/dev/sda7
> UUID=d15c6c4a-61dc-4792-bd77-3d0e297f2bf0  /home          ext3
> relatim    0    2
>
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
> /dev/scd2       /media/cdrom2   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
>
>
> i creatred a back up so i can restore the original, clearly i rename
> this 2nd one to fstab before rebooting and trying to log in
>
> With this 2nd fstab file i get as far as the login screen (gdm)
>
> log in and get a message
>
> cannot enter home directory using /.
>
> it then doesn't give me a desktop
>
> my media directory has the following
>
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root     6 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom -> cdrom0
> dr-xr-xr-x 26 root    root 20480 2008-12-13 16:12 cdrom0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root  4096 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom1
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root  4096 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom2
> drwx------  6 psutton root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 disk
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root  4096 2008-12-12 20:42 disk-1
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root  4096 2008-12-13 18:11 music
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root    root  4096 2008-12-13 17:41 temp-home
>
>
> i have mounted /sda7 on temp-home
>
> Can anyone please help,  as I need this extra disk space
>
> Paul
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