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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