moving home to /dev/sda6

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Man, that procedure is awfully complicated...
My take: 

1.- Boot from any live CD (This is ALWAYS a powerful tool!)
2.- Create a filesystem in your new home partition.
3.- mkdir -p /mnt/{old,new}
4.- mount -text? /dev/sdaX /mnt/old
5.- mount -text? /dev/sdaY /mnt/new
7.- rsync -va --checksum /mnt/old/home/ /mnt/new
8.- rm -Rf /mnt/old/home/*
8.- Edit /mnt/old/etc/fstab to mount your /dev/sdaY to /home.
9.- Boot your box and enjoy your banana.
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Michael Havens writes: 

> Well this is fun: I'm trying to move my <users> directory to its own
> partition and am having problems doing so. I followed the directions at
> this page-
> http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/- (steps
> taken below)
> On  my first attempt at doing this  it would get to the password page just
> fine. However, upon entering my password the screen would go black and some
> text would appear then it would go back to the password page no matter
> which user I tried to login with. So I went back in and fiddled with fstab
> again and now when I try to load my preferred user it says it '[Can't]
> update ICEauthority file /home/bmike1/ICEauthority'. I know what the
> problem with that is.... /home/bmike1 is now /home/bmike1.old. In other
> words it is still looking for the old directory.
> What to do oh what to do! One more question..... why did the UUID of
> /dev/sda5 (swap) change when I moved it? hmmmmm.... is it because I deleted
> it and then recreated it where I wanted it? Yeah... I bet that is the
> problem. 
> 
> 
> (steps)
> 1st-
> create a partition of sufficient size for your “/home” directory. You may
> have to use that new hard drive, or adjust/resize the existing partition on
> your current hard-drive to do this. Let me skip those details. 
> 
> 2nd
> mount the new partition:
> $mkdir /mnt/newhome
> $sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /mnt/newhome 
> 
> 2.5
> Now, Copy files over:
> Since the “/home” directory will have hardlinks, softlinks, files and
> nested directories, a regular copy (cp) may not do the job completely.
> Therefore, we use something we learn from the Debian archiving
> guide<http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-archiving>
> :
> $cd /home/
> $find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd /mnt/newhome/ 
> 
> 3rd 
> 
> unmount the new partition:
> $sudo umount /mnt/newhome
> 4th
> Make way for the new “home”
> $sudo mv /home /old_home 
> 
> 5th
> recreate a new /home by:
> sudo mkdir /home 
> 
> 6th
> Mount the new home:
> $sudo mount /dev/hda5 /home 
> 
> 7th 
> 
> Now, you have to tell Ubuntu to mount your new home when you boot. Add a
> line to the “/etc/fstab” file that looks like the following:
> /dev/hda5 /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2 
> 
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
> UUID=9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-beb5d83917b2 /               ext4
> errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
> UUID=d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-1e531cedfd1c none            swap
> sw              0       0
> # /home/bmike1 is on sda6
> UUID=46758120-c0c7-444a-a313-b58168af05b5 /home/bmike1    ext4
> nodev,nosuid    0        2 
> 
> WOW! I just figured out that it is doing just what i want (in that it is
> mounting /dev/sda6 to /home/bmike1) 
> 
> 
> Michaels-Laptop ~ # blkid
> /dev/sda1: UUID="9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-beb5d83917b2" TYPE="ext4"
> /dev/sda5: UUID="d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-1e531cedfd1c" TYPE="swap"
> /dev/sda6: UUID="46758120-c0c7-444a-a313-b58168af05b5" TYPE="ext4"
> /dev/sda7: UUID="9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-5dd63fab9775" TYPE="ext4"
> /dev/sda8: UUID="9a4d41b2-28c6-4907-8463-00d519a36774" TYPE="ext4"
> /dev/sda9: UUID="fcd01ca7-d230-4cbe-acf1-200810245394" TYPE="ext4"
> /dev/sdb1: LABEL="USB20FD" UUID="0000-0001" TYPE="vfat"
> Michaels-Laptop ~ # 
> 
> 
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-: