[freebe]

I have ubuntu on one drive. I'd like to move the /home directory to a 2nd hard drive. Don't think I'll have trouble setting up a partition for /home with Gparted, not sure what I need to do to get ubuntu to use it. I bet it can be done w/ fstab or maybe grub.

[freebe]

OK, found this. Does this sound correct:

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/...own-partition/

[tomdkat]

Looks like a good procedure to me. Please wait for someone else to confirm this BEFORE doing it.

Peace...

[RobLinux]

You'll find it easier if you use "rsync -cSHax /home /mnt" then you can check it with "rsync -cSHaxv" and should see not see new files go over.

Looks reasonable though. If you set a label, when you make the file system (ppl say format parition sometimes), then after a reboot, you can write LABEL=<label> rather than those long winded UUID devices Ubuntu likes.

[tomdkat]

Do the rsync and then update fstab to mount /home to the new disk device?

Peace...

[prunejuice]

Why do you want to do this?

[RobLinux]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Do the rsync and then update fstab to mount /home to the new disk device?

Yes. But udev won't create it until the next boot. Have to use the device before, and actually even then sometimes the new partition table isn't available until a reboot.

[freebe]

Ah, worked for me. I made a ext3 partition on sda3 & then followed the writeup. I had to use sudo in 3 more places. Here is my (slightly modified) list of commands:

$sudo mkdir /mnt/newhome
$sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/newhome
$cd /home/
$sudo find . -depth -print0 | sudo cpio -–null -–sparse -pvd /mnt/newhome/
$sudo umount /mnt/newhome
$sudo mv /home /old_home
sudo mkdir /home
$sudo mount /dev/sda3 /home

Cursorily verify that everything works right. (it did)
Now, you have to tell Ubuntu to mount your new home when you boot. Add a line to the “/etc/fstab” file that looks like the following:
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2

Once all this is done, and everything works fine, you can delete the “/old_home” directory by using:
$sudo rm -r /old_home