Create separate /home partition after install

[baba]

I installed Cassandra. I don't understand yet what is the process to upgrade to new releases. I have read it is easier if you have a separate /home partition. I didn't install it that way. Is it possible to create it after the fact. I know how to use partitioning tools.

So when there is a new version, will I have to reinstall all the apps I have have added? I assume that by having a separate /home partition, everything I keep there will be preserved. But there are setup files in many other places (/etc). Will they be preserved?

[scorp123]

Is it possible to create it after the fact. I know how to use partitioning tools.

Of course. You just have to adjust /etc/fstab ... and move your old /home to e.g. /old_home ... as your new home partition will be mounted under /home. Just move ('mv' command) the files over (as root) to the new location.

[Husse]

There's a bit in the wiki about it
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... _partition
@scorp
move as root? (man mv did not tell me much )
what about permissions (will they change?) and (symbolic) links?
For the wiki you gave me a good set of switches for cp

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cp -a -v -u

[alexander]

sudo cp -a -v -u /home/* /mnt/newhome/

this tried to copy everything in /home/USERNAME/Network to /mnt/newhome/network !!

Personally I don't want to mirror my entire network lol

[scorp123]

/home/USERNAME/Network to /mnt/newhome/network !!

Duh. Of course it tried. /home/* means what it means: *Everything* underneath /home. Really *everything*. Obviously you have to get rid of all your network connections first before you try something like this. Or do it in a text console (outside of any GUI) just to make sure no overly nice program tries to be super-smart and does stuff like that such as mount something on your network underneath your $HOME ...