Re: Need help making a /home partition

Oppps.
cp -R /home/* /crap

Good catch.

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:44:27 -0700 (PDT), Jeremy C. Reed
<reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> > 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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