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oDy
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 Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:31 am Post subject: Using ex-windows partition as /home |
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| I just formated my windows partition and I want to use it as my /home but I dont want to lose the files from my current /home. What should I do? |
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/dev/random
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:37 am Post subject: |
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mount the ex-windows partition at a temporary mount point (we'll say /mnt/windows) then
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cp -a /home/* /mnt/windows
umount /mnt/windows
umount /home (or rm -rf /home/*)
mount /dev/windows_partition /home
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Then of course update /etc/fstab.
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oDy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:39 am Post subject: |
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Thanx alot  |
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/dev/random
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| Shit I made a typo in my post use the edited version. |
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:43 am Post subject: Re: Using ex-windows partition as /home |
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| oDy wrote: | | I just formated my windows partition and I want to use it as my /home but I dont want to lose the files from my current /home. What should I do? |
Well, imagine that your windows partition is /dev/hdaX.
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1.- Log initially as root, so you will not be using any file in your /home dir.
2.- mkdir /mnt/tmp
3.- mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/tmp
4.- mv /home/* /mnt/tmp
5.- umount /mnt/tmp
6.- rmdir /mnt/tmp
7.- umount /home [only needed if /home is a separated partition, anyway it don't hurts if it isn't]
8.- mount /dev/hdaX /home
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After this all should work as before but now your /home is your old windoze partition. Make sure after this that you change consequently the /etc/fstab file to reflect this change. Ah! Another thing, if you havent formatted the windoze partition you should mkfs.ext3 (or reiserfs, or whatever you preffer) before doing all of this. |
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oDy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| It worked Thanx again |
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