Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> well now I need to work on the other computer a little. I wanted to move
> the print server's /home to it's own partition but the partition i want to
> use is too small. So, my question is what do I need to copy?
> /home/<user>/documents i know I need but what else? I guess that is it. If
> there is space I suppose Downloads too. And to get it to see /dev/sda3 as
> the new location for documents I would 'export
> /home/<user>/documents=/mnt/sda3/documents. Copying the documemts would be:
> 'rsync -va --checksum /mnt/home/documents /mnt/sda3. does this sound right?


rsync -va /mnt/home/ /mnt/sda3/

Skip checksum, it will go faster and check date and size and not checksum
every file. Simply run it again when it's done and it should sync nothing,
showing you it's all there.

On your first box, the fix is:

1) mount new partition to, say, /mnt/new/
2) rsync -va /mnt/home/bmike1 /mnt/new/
3) note the trailing slash and no trailing slash in 2). This should result
in /mnt/new/bmike1
4) edit /etc/fstab to put the device on /mnt/new on /home
5) mv /home /home.bk
6) mkdir /home
7) mount -a
8) confirm /home/bmike1 exists and is writable by bmike1
9) reboot, everything should work
10) rm -rf /home.bk when you are sure everything is functional.

~Ben
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