moving /home & /tmp

bishop00s · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject: moving /home & /tmp

I already have a working and installed system with /home, /tmp, etc. on the root partition. Is there away to move them to another partition/drive? I tried copying the directory to another location. Then mounting the partition and moving the files back. When I started kde and other apps they gave all sorts of errors. I ran

redshift · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 98

If you cp -aR the files from /home and /tmp to their new partitions, mount the partitions at the correct place, and make sure the directory permissions/owner/group are correct, you should be fine (assuming nothing is actively using files there).

Once everything is working fine for a bit and the new locations are in fstab, you could umount them and delete the contents of /home and /tmp on the root partition which are probably still wasting space.

(if /tmp had the correct permissions, what error was portage giving?)
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bishop00s · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

apearenttly the -a flag was what i needed. thanks!
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