D&C GLug - Home Page

[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]

Re: [LUG] moving /home

 

Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> 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.

Yep :)
I tried to move "Documents and Settings" on Windows last week... I don't 
recommend you try it, even though the Microsoft howto makes it sound 
easy. 5 hours later the machine was booting again- with me not quite 
sure which location it was using. Probably both.

-- 
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list
FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html