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Ixzat
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 Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject: moving /home? |
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Is there an easy way to move my /home to another harddrive that i have prepared with a ext3 fs?
I want to move it from /dev/hda4 to /dev/hdf1... |
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Given M. Sur
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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I believe this will work:
| Code: | # cd /
# mkdir newhome
# mount /dev/hdf1 newhome
# mv /home newhome
# umount newhome
# rmdir newhome
# umount /home
# mount /dev/hdf1 /home
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then edit /etc/fstab and change the line for your home directory to /dev/hdf1
At least that's how I would do it, but I'm still a n00b so there could be an easier way. |
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Given M. Sur
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry... that should be:
on the fourth line |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Ixzat,
Make a new mount point wth mkdir /mnt/newh and mount dev/hdf1 there.
cd to /home (your old home)
next do the copy
| Code: | | tar -cf - . | ( cd /mnt/newh; tar -xf -) |
This command creates a new archive of the current directory and sends it to stdout where it is piped to your new home and extracted from stdin.
File permissions, datestamps etc are untouched.
Have a look at /mnt/newh to see it ks OK.
Unmount it from /mnt/newh
Unmount /home
Mount /dev/hdf1 as /home.
Fix /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as home.
Later you can delete the old /home if you want, or clean it out to reuse the space.
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NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
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Ixzat
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Thx for the tips, running this right now so lets see what happens...
However i have a few questions, what does the "- ." mean in the front and "-" in the back of the command?
tar -cf - . | ( cd /mnt/newh; tar -xf -) |
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GuidoJ
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| The '-' refers to stdin or stdout, whichever is appropriate. |
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Oo.et.oO
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
| Code: | | tar -cf - . | ( cd /mnt/newh; tar -xf -) |
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damn is that overkill!
you can just use
$> cp -a |
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