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trizon

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Posted: April 18 2005,16:25

Hello,

I created a partition on install for my /home directory and I am wanting to move my current /home over to it.
My problem is I am logged in as dsl and it says the information is busy.
I have tried init 1, but it still tells me the files are busy and cannot be moved.
What would be the best method of doing this?

mikshaw

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Posted: April 18 2005,20:04

This is from my foggy memory....

1) Log in as root ("sudo su -" or init 2)
2) Copy /home to your new partition (use cp -p to preserve ownerships)
3) Edit /etc/fstab, adding a line for the partition mounted at /home
4) Delete the contents of /home
5) type "mount /home"

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helmut
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Posted: April 20 2005,10:19

Hello mikshaw
is step "4) Delete the contents of /home" necessary?
I tried to move /home also, but did only rename /home/dsl to /home/dsl.old. Then I edited /etc/fstab and rebooted the computer. But the new home-partition was not mounted automatically. I could not log in as user dsl. As user root I could mount /home and afterwards user dsl could login.
The options in fstab were set 'default' for /home.
Why was my home-partition not mounted automaticly?

helmut

mikshaw

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Posted: April 20 2005,13:49

I was only typing from a foggy memory, as i said....i did this once, and it was successful, but i'm not 100% sure of the procedure. If anyone has a more definite method, or sees a mistake, please feel free to correct me.
Step 4 isn't necessary, i just don't see any reason to keep duplicates hanging around. As far as i know, the new mount will hide the current contents of /home.
The automount might need to be specified in /etc/fstab. Add "auto" to the mount options, something like this:
/dev/hda2 /home reiserfs auto,rw 0 0

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ke4nt1

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Posted: April 20 2005,15:12

If your running a frugal/poormans/liveCD install,
because of the new options added to the 1.x.x series,
you can specify another home and opt location by using
" dsl home=hdXx opt=hdXx " in your boot line.
( hdXx = whatever you specify, e.g. hda3 hdd2, etc.. )

You can also add these commands to your remaster,
or add them to your lilo.conf , or menu.lst for booting
lilo or grub..

You can prepare these dirs in advance, if you wish.
or, if you choose a partition void of /home or /opt dirs,
they will be created and loaded for you at boottime.

73
ke4nt

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