Creating /home partition

[Yorvik]

Clive Menzies wrote:
> 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.
Done that
>
> Copy (or rsync) all files and directories to newhome
Do I copy the home folder and it's contents or just it's contents?

> 
> Edit /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /home
> 
> either reboot or unmount newhome and then do
> 
> # mount -a
> 
> Regards
> 
> Clive
>