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Re: Create separate /home partition after install

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:03 am
by scorp123
baba wrote: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.

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:54 am
by 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

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:30 pm
by scorp123
alexander wrote: /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 ...