Re: Need help making a /home partition

> In order to format it you need to do a:
> su
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3
> next you need to mount it somewhere and copy your home over:
> mkdir /crap
> mount /dev/hda3 /crap
> cp -R /home /crap

This will copy "home" directory itself. So when you later mount hda3, you
will get "home/home".

Maybe use a wildcard (assuming no hidden files in /home/ top level
itself). Or use rsync with trailing slash for source, like:

rsync -a /home/ /crap ## need slash after home

Or use cpio:

cd /home && find . | cpio -pm /crap

(Or use tar.)

> umount /crap
> rmdir /crap
> next you need to edit your /etc/fstab. Email that out if you need help
> with that.

Jeremy C. Reed

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