Creating new partition for user files

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 08:21 -0400, Steve wrote:
> I've currently got Ubuntu installed on a single ext3 partition, but
> now want to MOVE my "user" files to a new large ext3 partition. What
> is the best way to do this? Do I need to label this new partition as
> "/usr" or "/home" or which other path would it be? Basically I want
> everything that currently resides in all my "/home/<users>" directory
> to be on this new partition.
> What changes do I need to make elsewhere (Grub menu, etc.)?


You don't need to touch GRUB, you just need to tell Ubuntu where you
want to mount your /home folder. In this case, you want to mount it on
your new, large ext3 partition. Just edit your /etc/fstab, and add a
line to mount /home to your new partition.

Here are the relevant lines of my fstab:


proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdb5       /               ext3    defaults,	0	1 
/dev/hdb6       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2

The entire system ('/') is on  /dev/hdb5, except for my '/home'
directory, which I have put on a separate partition, /dev/hdb6.

Just replace /dev/hdb6 with the actual name of your big ext3 partition,
save the file, copy your /home directory onto your new partition, reboot
the machine, and that's all :-)
Then you can delete your old /home directory of course, as the system
will not use it anymore, and it's now just wasting space.


HTH


--
Vince