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[LUG] moving /home

 

Hi

I have recently installed ubuntu on what was my windows partition, and 
am using /home on what was the data partition leaving /dev/hda7 with debian.

What I need to do, is to format the debian partition as its bigger, and 
make this /home and move the stuff over, so ubuntu uses the bigger drive 
for /home user accounts etc.

I am not sure how to do this

formatting the drive,  dragging / dropping the contents of /home to the 
new drive and editing fstab or mtab (or whatever) to point to the new 
/home mount point seems far too simple.

Perhaps there is another solution,  symlinks etc, not sure,

sufficient to say this will leave what is now my ubuntu /home parition 
free for other stuff, perhaps a shared, drive,

as its quite small (<10gb) i may be able to keep it as /home. andperhaps 
store mp3's or ogg files onit (music), so this can be a shared music 
source on the computer.

any ideas

thanks

Paul

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