Changing /home partition

disinformation · 01-28-2004, 04:09 PM

Hi All,

I recently bought a new hdd and want to move all my user accounts there, is it as simple as copying them over and putting an entry in /etc/fstab like;

mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdc5 /home

or is that way out

tia.

synaptical · 01-28-2004, 04:21 PM

it's as simple as that, except the fstab entry would look more like this:

Code:

/dev/hdc5        /home            reiserfs    defaults         0   2

i.e., not with the mount command.

artur · 01-28-2004, 04:24 PM

Yep, like synaptical said... Pretty simple.

Out of curiosity: why hdc5? You're using the other partitions for something else? You're not creating extended partition as the only partition on the disk, are you?

disinformation · 01-28-2004, 04:32 PM

yes its currently formatted to one big reiserfs partition, but that was just an example really.

What are the implications

artur · 01-28-2004, 05:12 PM

None that I can think of, but to me it would be really confusing. I'd keep wondering what I did with the other partitions and where did I mount them.

disinformation · 01-29-2004, 05:57 AM

Basically at the moment it formatted to one big partitions just to store media, mp3 music and videos.

I will split it up 50/50 more than likely