moving home to it's own partition

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 8/23/05, Michael Beattie <mtbeedee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> you might want to use like
> 
> rm -rf /home/*

or
mv /home /old_home 
Just in case. ;)

mount /dev/hdb7 /home
> 
> something like that. Just be REALLY CAREFUL with the rm's and make
> sure you have backups.
> 
> On 8/22/05, Martin Ericsson <i00marer at island.liu.se> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > So far I have had my home folder on the root partition, but now I have
> > created a new ext3 onto which I wish to move the home folder.
> >
> > I tried to simply copy the files from my old home folder to the new
> > folder with nautilus but I got an error message for some mozilla-file.
> > Is there a some better way to do it?
> >
> > And would the following line be OK in fstab once I have copied the 
> files?
> > /dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin Ericsson
> >
> >
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Regards,
Russ
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