Quoting "Jeremy C. Reed" <
reed@reedmedia.net>:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Ric Fischer wrote:
>
> > 1. How can I find out if my /home is in its own partition?
>
> df
> mount
>
> > 2. If it isn't in its own partition, how do I make a new partition and
> > move /home over there? (I have a lot of hard drive space left, so if
> > there's a way to squeeze down the size of existing partition(s) and
> > use the reclaimed space, that would be great.)
>
> fdisk (or sfdisk or cfdisk or other partitioning tool) to create new
> partition
>
> mkfs to create filesystem on new partition. (Be careful to not mkfs an
> existing partition.)
>
> mount new partition (and add to /etc/fstab as /home for later reboots).
>
> Copy all of /home to new mount point. Be sure to preserve all attributes.
>
I've found that rsync works great for this:
> mv /home /home.old
>
> unmount new partition and mount as /home
# rsync -auv /home.old /home
>
> Remove /home.old once you think new /home is fine.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>
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