Diff: ShouldBePutWhere - Waikato Linux Users Group

Newer page:	version 24	Last edited on Sunday, July 29, 2007 2:06:27 pm	by ElroyLiddington	Revert
Older page:	version 22	Last edited on Sunday, July 29, 2007 2:00:51 pm	by ElroyLiddington	Revert

@@ -35,33 +35,24 @@

#Create new '/home'_temp partition and format, then quick integrity check:

*'cfdisk /dev/xxxx'

* REBOOT!!! - is this really needed?

-

*'mkfs.ext3 -c /dev/xxxx'

* REBOOT!!! - is this really needed?

-

*'fsck.ext3 -c /dev/xxxx' (Extra -c redundant from mkfs -c?)

#Move/redirect '/home'_old to temp partition/drive,

*'<your-fav-text-editor-here> /etc/fstab'

* Locate the line with '/home' in it.

-

* Carefully remove the '/dev/xxxx...' at the beginning, and replace with that of your newly created temp partition.

* SAVE!

-

* This is where we mount our new temp dir:

* 'mkdir /media/xxxx'

-

* This mounts our temp EXT3 partition to our previously created mount point '/media...' etc:

* 'mount -t ext3 /dev/xxxx /media/xxxx

-

* Copies (recursively) our user data from old '/home':

* 'cp -R /home/* /media/xxxx'

-

* Check our copy worked OK:

* 'diff -r /home/* /media/xxxx'

* If any errors are output from the above step, they SHOULD? (NEEDS CONFIRMATION!!) be noted in the output from 'diff'.

@@ -72,19 +63,17 @@

#Delete/Reformat old '/home':

* Remove original user(s) from the /home folder (stops the system getting confused later when we re-add them?!?)

* 'userdel user1'...user2...etc'

-

* Nuke old partition - make sure you delete the right one!!!

* 'cfdisk /dev/xxxx'

* REBOOT!!! - is this really needed?

-

* Create new partition from free space from old one

* 'cfdisk /dev/xxxx'

* REBOOT!!! - is this really needed?

- # Move/redirect user/data/mount-point back to original partition

+ #Move/redirect user/data/mount-point back to original partition

* Edit '/etc/fstab' to change your '/home' entry from '/home'_old to '/home'_new

* SAVE!!

* REBOOT!!