Creating /home partition

[Clive Menzies]

On (16/06/06 13:57), Yorvik wrote:
> 
> On one of my computers I want to move 'home' to it's own partition on an 
> other disc. Do I copy the 'home' folder or just it's contents to the new 
> partition.

Format the new partition using fdisk or cfdisk

Mount the new partition as something like newhome.

Copy (or rsync) all files and directories to newhome

Edit /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /home

either reboot or unmount newhome and then do

# mount -a

Regards

Clive

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