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Re: [LUG] moving /home

 

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:41:11PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
> 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.

This is unix. It is that simple.

Format the drive, mount it on /mnt/tmp-home or something, copy
everything in /home to /mnt/tmp-home, then update /etc/fstab to mount
the new drive on /home.

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