[FC5} Moving /home

[jdow]

From: "M.Lewis" <cajun at cajuninc.com>
> 
> Todd Zullinger wrote:
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>> M.Lewis wrote:
>>> There was a long thread about this a while back:
>>>
>>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=113379388022758&w=2
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>>> I didn't see any reference to this in the thread:
>>>
>>> - doesn't /etc/passwd have to be edited for the new location?
>>>
>>> - I'm not sure if /etc/passwd is what handles this or not, but are
>>> there symlinks that are needed so 'cd' and applications know where ~
>>> is?
>>>
>>> I've been wanting to do this for a long time. Finally getting a
>>> roundtuit.
>> 
>> Unless I'm reading that thread wrong, it's about moving /home to
>> another partition.  The cool part about the *nix style disc layout is
>> that when you move the contents of /home and remount it, all of your
>> programs still find /home.  If you moved drives in windows then you'd
>> have to edit things to reference the new drive letter (or so it was
>> when I last played with windows, I don't really know or care if
>> they've improved on that :).
>> 
> 
> Thanks Todd. So you're saying /etc/passwd does NOT have to be edited?
> 
> I failed to mention, the disk that I'm wanting to move /home to is 
> already mounted.

Copy /home to a home directory on the new disk. Then rename the old
/home to /home_old to save it for a week or so for shakeout and instant
backup. Then symlink the new partition's home directory to /home. Bob's
your uncle.

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