[plug] Changing the mount point of /home

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 14:57 +0800, Jim Householder wrote:
> John Godfrey Foster wrote:
> > My Suse linux 10 mounted 	/home 	as a locked folder on the same partition as 
> > the system (hda8). This partition is now some 75% full.
> > 
> > I have a 6GB partition (hda6) which is not used. Suse recognises this 
> > partition under path-folder 	/data1; and 
> > also on the desktop under  icon My Computer then media/hda6
> > 
> > How do I change the mount point of /home to hda6 so that this change is 
> > recognised by the system and given that its present folder at  hda8 is shown 
> > as locked.
> > 
> I would most likely use a live distro to guarantee no open files in 
> /home.  Copy to the new partition, and *rename*, not delete, /home for 
> backup.  Create a new /home, change fstab, and reboot.

Actually, you don't HAVE to delete /home right then, but if you mount
the partition over the /home directory, you end up having the
old /home/* stuff "under" the mount and never getting round to deleting
it.

Just my $0.02

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>