[wplug] Moving User directories?

[Rafael Herrera]

William Powell wrote:
> 
> My hard drive is almost full.  I want to leave that drive intact but
> move the users home directories over to a separate drive, say /dev/hdb.
> 
> as I  conceive it, these are the required steps:
> as root, I have to
> 
> a. power down, install the drive, boot system, then format the new
> drive,
> b. with all users logged off, copy the users directories to the new
> drive,
To preserve ownerships try this

cd /home
tar cpf - jane | (cd /mnt; tar xvpf -)

This assumes you mounted the new disk in /mnt temporarily.

> c. delete the old users directories

check that you copied everything correctly first.

> d. change the fstab file to mount /dev/hdb at /home.
> e. have the system re-read the fstab file.


-- 
     Rafael