Cookbook to get home into separate partition !?

[Karl Larsen]

SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> Hello Linux / Ubuntu expert and users
> As a greenhorn / newbie with Ubuntu 7.10 since October 2007 my first
> installation 
> got quite simple with ROOT and SWAP only !
>
> In the meantime I have experienced and learnt a lot and want to
> get /home 
> into a separate parititon !!
>
> Can you help me with an easy understandable and usable cookbook to get
> it done ???
>
> TIA for your assistance. ;-)
>
> The present configuration looks like following:
>
>
> sna at WS222:~$ UUIDcomp
>
> sda1 UUID=D2C47460C47448AD
> sda5 UUID=edf0353d-b99b-41d6-b7aa-57fad83fab35
> UUID=edf0353d-b99b-41d6-b7aa-57fad83fab35
> sda6 UUID=2E6F3BB200B81788
> sda7 UUID=10f72bf8-1357-4a6b-a1ae-bc9b9887c86f
> sda8 UUID=19cf20fb-e967-41d9-b993-f0a9ca7829eb
> UUID=19cf20fb-e967-41d9-b993-f0a9ca7829eb
> sda9 UUID=76a67ae2-ba51-4698-ac8d-1382b30e0e57 #
> UUID=76a67ae2-ba51-4698-ac8d-1382b30e0e57 /home ext3 0 2
>
> sna at WS222:~$ 
>
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/sda5
> UUID=edf0353d-b99b-41d6-b7aa-57fad83fab35	/               ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/sda1
> UUID=D2C47460C47448AD /media/sda1     ntfs    defaults,umask=007,gid=46
> 0       1
> # /dev/sda8
> UUID=19cf20fb-e967-41d9-b993-f0a9ca7829eb	none            swap    sw
> 0       0
> # /dev/sda9
> # UUID=76a67ae2-ba51-4698-ac8d-1382b30e0e57		/home	ext3	0	2
> /dev/scd0	/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
> /dev/fd0	/media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec 0       0
>
>
> /home currently is in sda5 and should be moved to sda9
>
>
> I am open ears to get it done the best easiest way.
> Cheers, svobi
>
>
>   
    Here is my /etc/fstab file. There are two partitions connected to my 
system.

karl at karl-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/hda8
UUID=a9c1cb61-ddfd-44f6-88b0-6dc976daf9ca /               ext3    
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hda2
UUID=7915f630-518c-425b-9fea-0ef07e50d0f9 none            swap    
sw              0       0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=7d8c37ed-b2ec-4008-a137-f24c6659c5ab none            swap    
sw              0       0
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
LABEL=f7-home       /f7home          ext3     defaults       1    2
/dev/hda9           /home       ext3     defaults       1    2
karl at karl-desktop:~$

    When you have this working your done. You do need to copy your 
current /home/name/ to a new partition. I have used cp -a and dd and 
both work fine.

Karl


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