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| Newer page: | version 26 | Last edited on Saturday, December 4, 2010 10:49:10 am | by ElroyLiddington | Revert |
| Older page: | version 24 | Last edited on Sunday, July 29, 2007 2:06:27 pm | by ElroyLiddington | Revert |
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-Describe [ShouldBePutWhere] here.
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-!A brief HOWTO on moving your '/home' folder
to another partition (or back again).
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-REQUIRES INTEGRITY/READINESS/CONTINUITY CHECK ON PROCEDURE BEFORE GENERAL USE!!!
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-!First off
:
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-!!!BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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-!! Overview:
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-* Move '
/home' to a Temporary '
/home' Partition
-* Format Old '/home'
-* Delete/Recreate Partition ('/home'_old and '/home'_new)
-* Move Your Data Back
.
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-!! Lets do it!
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- #Create new '/home'_temp partition and format, then quick integrity check:
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- *'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?)
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- #Move/redirect '/home'_old to temp partition/drive,
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- *'<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'
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- * If any errors are output from the above step, they SHOULD? (NEEDS CONFIRMATION!!) be noted in the output from 'diff'.
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-
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- #Delete/Reformat old '/home':
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- * 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?
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- #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!!
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- #Profit!!!
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-!!NOTES:
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-1) Turns out, if you log on as root/single user in recovery mode, you can put stuff from /home into /root - because when logged on as root, this is your /home folder?
-On Ubuntu at GRUB screen - hit ESC/select Ubuntu xxx.xx.xxx (recovery).
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-2) Every change/write in fdisk/cfdisk needs a reboot?
-Same for partition formatting?!?
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-3) Something I discovered:
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-After recreating /home, then doing an 'adduser xxx', then logging in as that user, my permissions had changed... I was running as a more restricted user than previously.
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-Turns out, apparently Ubuntu has the first non-root user account with additional 'special' permissions - seeing as I removed all users bar root, then recreated that first user, it took a reboot for that users permissions to come right...
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-4) I had a spare partition (1) (blank drive space) available, so I put my temporary '/home' there while I reformatted my old '/home' partition.
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-I pretty much did everything as 'root' user - I think I should be using SUDO, but I haven't grokked? that concept yet :-)
+Moved
to http
://www
.wlug
.org
.nz
/BackingUpYourHomeDir
