<div>On 5/17/07, Carsten Aulbert <<a href="mailto:carsten@welcomes-you.com">carsten@welcomes-you.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> alex wrote: > Is there any benefit or disadvantage if swap and/or /home are moved to > their own partitions on > a second hard drive but leaving ubuntu in the first hard drive. The advantage for having /home on its own partition is, that you can reinstall the system completely and leave /home untouched (but please have a backup ready because you might accidentally format the partition during this process). I fI have two physical hard drives available I like having /home and /tmp on different ones, since this can speed up video processing a lot (e.g.). Having swap on a different hard drive helps a bit, but usually it helps much more to increase the memory size ;) > How would such a move be accomplished? swap: create a new partition, run sudo mkswap on the partition, change /etc/fstab and you are done /home create new partition, create file system on it (mkfs.ext3, mkfs.xfs, ...), mount the new home partition and use rsync to copy stuff over, e.g. cd /home; rsync -ax . /mnt/newhome where /mnt/newhome is the mount point of your new home partition. Please have a look at the rsync man page to look through the large numebr of available options. </blockquote><div> Of course he left out some obvious steps... You need to change /etc/fstab to new partition after that.. umount old home and mount new home... HTH User Iam </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">HTH Carsten -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>