Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:16:14 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving /home to new drive Message-ID: <469DB02E.30407@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <8b9a9ca79ee8718d603bd36a80fcaa94@szalbot.homedns.org> References: <200707180546.l6I5kaS9025869@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <8b9a9ca79ee8718d603bd36a80fcaa94@szalbot.homedns.org>
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> 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!
>
1. Mount new disk to temporary location.
2. Copy files over to disk.
3. Update /etc/fstab while files are being copied.
4. Drop into single user mode (if production machine), and login as root
(just to avoid possible errors in programs :)..).
5. Delete files in /usr/home
6. Mount new drive at /usr/home.
I know it's a long set of steps, but it's complete list.
If /usr/home is a symlink you could just symlink to the permanent
mountpoint after 3., and forgo doing 4. - 6.
-Garrett
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