moving home to /dev/sda6
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 17:04:45 MST 2012
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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