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Moving Home folder

Hi,

Ok im very new to linux.. so this will probally be a easy question...

My home folder was on a small partition on mt system, it filled up very quickly...
I would like to move it to a larger partition without affecting anything...

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 36G 6.7G 27G 20% /
/dev/hda3 387M 9.3M 357M 3% /home
none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm
AFS 8.6G 0 8.6G 0% /afs
[drivers@localhost drivers]$

I would like to put my home directory onto /dev/hda1. any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers

liddler

user usermod -d /path/to/new/home username
or simply edit the /etc/passwd file to reflect the new path, then use mv to move the files

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mr_rabit

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mrorange

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I am at the stage of removing the lines you suggested from my fstab file.
This is what it contains...

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,user,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/camera auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Which line should i be editing, and out of curiosity how does this put the home directory onto the HDA1

Cheers

mrorange

ASKER

When i rebooted the line that I deleted in fstab was not recreated, i presume the mount -a mounts everything in the fstab file...

:-S

majorwoo

yes, mount -a does mount everything in /etc/fstab

mrorange

ASKER

Ok, so by following the suggestion from Rabit i have still not been able to change my Home directory..

So any other ideas how I mount the home directory on on my HDa1

Cheers

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majorwoo

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majorwoo

sorry, pasted the wrong line, comment out this line from /etc/fstab

LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2

put a # in front of that, so

#LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2

mr_rabit

thats what i told too

but what is the problem at the moment??

you don't have to mount any more we now made a directroy on the / (root partition) that is /dev/hda1

so everything should work now.

tell me more what the problem is

greetz mr_rabit

mrorange

ASKER

Thanks guys, it all work great now... i guess i just need a little clarification there...

Cheers again...

Regards,

Dan