Creating /home partition

[Yorvik]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Yorvik wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> The contents.
>>>
>>> Then you will mount the root of that partition on the empty /home on the
>>> root partition and everything will look right.
>> Thanks.  I've read various things on this and ended up rather confused.
>> strangely non of the articles I read ever mentioned deleting the
>> contents of the original folder, some thing i assumed you'd have to do.
>>
> You don't _have_ to - but I highly recommend it.  Otherwise, when the
> partition is mounted you see what you expect in /home, but if it's
> unmounted (which might happen if there were an error on the drive, or you
> just accidentally happened to type "umount /home" in a root session :-) ),
> you'd still see /home but it would be all the stuff that was there _before_
> you created the new partition.  That would be sure to lead to panic, hair
> loss, rickets, and England failing to win the World Cup (OK, that's a given
> anyway).




Thanks all, now sorted. /home on new hard disk, original home folder 
emptied and new backup of home made.  Now I've got plenty of dusk space 
to fill up :-)
I've suffered enough panic and severe hair loss with computers over the 
years, especially the hair loss, so rickets must be the next affliction. 
  As for England and the World Cup...

SteVe