Moving home to a partition on the same disk

[deepakdeshp]

Hello ,
As a step in this I have to copy the /home partition to another one.
I plan to do following

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sudo mkdir /home1 ;sudo mount /dev/destination /home1; sudo chmod 644 /home1 ;sudo chown owner:owner /home1 [b]cp -rpd /home /home1 [/b] 

is the command to copy and preserver all permissions /home to /home1 correct?

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cp -rpd /home /home1

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After verifying the sizes of /home and /home1 being the same with du -sm I would proceed as follows

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sudo umount /home /home1

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sudo mount /dev/destination /home

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Please review once, especially the command

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 cp -rpd /home /home1 

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Thanks all in anticipation

[WharfRat]

If you want to move your home to its own partition, this works - enter one line at a time and change the partition to use in the first line to your new home partition

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PART=sda6

FMT=ext4

sudo cp -a /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old

sudo mkdir /mnt/newhome

sudo mount -t $FMT /dev/$PART /mnt/newhome

sudo chown $USER:$USER /mnt/newhome

cd /home

find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd /mnt/newhome/

sudo umount /mnt/newhome

sudo mv /home /old_home

sudo mkdir /home

sudo mount /dev/$PART /home

sudo rm -r /old_home

echo -e "# /dev/$PART home\n$(blkid|grep $PART|grep -wo "UUID=\"[^\"]*\""|tr -d '"')  /home   $FMT   errors=remount-ro,noatime  0 2" |sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

Good luck

[deepakdeshp]

Thank you. That's a killer script with a lots of wizardry. I will be moving /home, which doesnt have a partition now to sda10 which already has some directories and files. I see that the script doesnt do anything to disturb or delete the current files. I will do the transition after a fortnight or so.

If Wharfrat runs any blog, I am eager to know the address.!!