From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENgqD-00016a-7S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:16:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9716VxW023478; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:06:31 GMT Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.96]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j971147Q010723 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:01:05 GMT Received: (qmail 88835 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2005 01:06:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (menola@sbcglobal.net@68.79.15.197 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2005 01:06:09 -0000 From: Joe Menola To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:06:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <4345C603.2040804@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <4345C603.2040804@gmx.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510062006.17686.menola@sbcglobal.net> X-Archives-Salt: 8baf8e35-b3e5-4157-8657-5ff5bdc70bc0 X-Archives-Hash: 1bbccc263bb6f315fb3394be31877fe8 On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: > I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, > because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both > directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed > very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to > [with the boot-cd] > > # mv /usr /mnt/newHD/ > # mv /home /mnt/newHD/ > # ln -s /mnt/newHD/usr usr > # ln -s /mnt/newHD/home home > > However, I'm not sure if this is the suggested method of doing so and to > be honest, I'm not completley sure if this would even work. > > Any comments or suggestions ? In theory I suppose that would work. Myself, I would copy the contents to /mnt/newHD/ then rename the original directories and create the links. The renamed directories can be deleted after you've verified positive results. And if it all craps out, the originals can simply be renamed back to /usr and /home. You should consider creating separate partitions for these though. At some point you may wish to blow out the install but retain your /home. Separate partitions makes this much easier. And also opens the possibility of sharing your /home with multiple installs. HTH -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list