Re: [PLUG] Adding a new HD

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:46:11PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:53:00PM -0400, Art Alexion said:
> > I am adding a new (additional) hard drive.  My current HD has a simple 
> > ext3 partitioning: (/, /boot, & /swap).  I want to move /home to the new 
> > drive as well as installing a new distro.
> > 
> > Can I just do a
> > 
> >    mkdir /newhome
> 
> Better might be:
> mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt
> mv /home/* /mnt
> umount /mnt
> mount /dev/hdc1 /home
> 
> (for whatever partition)
> [...]
> 
> > I feel like I am missing something critical.

Remember to stop anything that might write to your home directory
while this is going on.  For example, you'll miss mail if you have
procmail deliver to $HOME/Mail/foo and mail arrives after you copy or
move foo but before the copy of $HOME is done.

-- 
 Jeff

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