moving home to /dev/sda6
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 12:46:46 MST 2012
I just found out it is doing something strange: it is creating my users
directory twice. So instead of /mnt/home/<user> and then the files, there
is /mnt/home/<user>/<user> and then the files. I found this once and
thought it was my mistake so I reran the instructions paying close
attention to doing it as written. But I just checked it and there it is
again. I didn't run the command to remove the old home directory in case
this happened.
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think it will affect any response you guys will offer but I
> changed fstab.
> I changed the mount points of the drives.
>
>
> # <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=remoun$
>
> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
> UUID=d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-1e531cedfd1c none swap
> sw $
>
> #/dev/sda6: home
> UUID=8632cfc4-95b7-4206-a287-442c602362d7 /mnt/home ext4 nodev,nosuid 0 2
> #/dev/sda7: backtrack
> UUID=9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-5dd63fab9775 /mnt/backtrack ext4 nodev,nosuid
> 0 2
> #/dev/sda8: entertainment
> UUID=9a4d41b2-28c6-4907-8463-00d519a36774 /mnt/entertainment ext4
> nodev,nosuid $
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, it almost works. While it's booting now it says:
>>
>> ys will occured while mounting nano
>>
>>
>> then it says to press S to skip or M to manually fix the error.
>>
>> Then it goes to the login screen and if I try to login with my user the
>> screen blanks out and then resets back to the login screen. If I login with
>> root there is no problem. I just renamed my old home directory back to it's
>> original name and it loaded with no problems. So there is an entry
>> somewhere that needs to be changed to point to the new home.I thought that
>> is what fstab did?
>>
>> I googled the error (Error occured....) and the results were saying that
>> it is an fstab error and to remove the line that has what isn't mounting.
>> The other entries in fstab were erroring out also but I fixed those
>> Well, nano isn't in fstab so there is another problem.
>>
>> #/etc/fstab
>>
>> <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
>> #/dev/sda6: home
>> UUID=8632cfc4-95b7-4206-a287-442c602362d7 /mnt/home ext4 nodev,nosuid 0 2
>> #/dev/sda7: backtrack
>> UUID=9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-5dd63fab9775 /mnt/home/backtrack ext4
>> nodev,nosuid 0 2
>> #/dev/sda8: entertainment
>> UUID=9a4d41b2-28c6-4907-8463-00d519a36774 /mnt/home/entertainment ext4
>> nodev,nosuid 0 2
>>
>> <what does the line under '#/etc/fstab' do?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:34 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
>> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>> ET
>>>
>>> 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/-<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<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~(-:
>>>>
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