From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Jul 18 06:11:54 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9710B16A403
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:11:54 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from beech@freebsd.org)
Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (75-96-237-24.gci.net
	[24.237.96.75])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BB413C441
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:11:54 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from beech@freebsd.org)
Received: by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix, from userid 0)
	id AC4F97EFF; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:11:53 -0800 (AKDT)
From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:11:47 -0800
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6
References: <200707180546.l6I5kaS9025869@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
	<8b9a9ca79ee8718d603bd36a80fcaa94@szalbot.homedns.org>
In-Reply-To: <8b9a9ca79ee8718d603bd36a80fcaa94@szalbot.homedns.org>
X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&B<LgSCl"Ia}yHjNtfO-rv-8f~/$lBP#.]lp7`}"=?utf-8?q?x5C=3B=5DQ+=23VWyr=0A=09r=60L4ur=26=7Ewh=7Eg=27z+udoy=3Ft?=>rP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>;
	27NO;
	C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200707172211.50940.beech@freebsd.org>
Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org>,
	Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Subject: Re: moving /home to new drive
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
Reply-To: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:11:54 -0000

On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Zbigniew Szalbot said:
> Hello again,
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:46:36 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole
> <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
>
> wrote:
> >> Or do I need to delete the
> >> symlink first and only then try to mount the new drive as /home?
> >
> > - delete the symlink
>
> OK
>
> > - create a directory /home
>
> Do I create it on the existing drive and
>
> > - mount the new drive
>
> then mount the new drive? I just want to make sure I unders
>
> > - copy the files
> >
> > You cannot mount a disk on a symlink and you cannot mount a disk
> > until you have created the mount point.
>
> And what about samba? I just realized I will need to alter sama
> configuration becasue current /usr/home is available as a network
> share. Thank you once again!

Copy the contents of home to your new drive. Delete everything 
inside /usr/home. Mount the new disk to /usr/home. Keeps your tree 
the same.

Beech

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org
/"\   ASCII Ribbon Campaign  | FreeBSD Since 4.x
\ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail   | http://www.freebsd.org
 X  - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release:
/ \  - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------