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phobos-dthorga

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Moving over /home dirs from root to new LVM partition

I've successfully followed the Arch Linux wiki instructions to create a new LVM partition and have it automatically mounted at boot with a new initramfs image, but I now am not sure how to transfer over the pre-existing /home dir contents from the root partition towards the new LVM partition, which mounts as /home itself. It might seem obvious to some but it certainly doesn't to me, so is there a documented procedure for this? I'd appreciate any and all help on this topic, thank you.

Roken

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Re: Moving over /home dirs from root to new LVM partition

Simply mount old /home (anywhere, it won't matter, just make a temp mountpoint) and then copy everything to your new mount.

cp -a /oldmount /newmount

Should preserve ownership and perms.

Last edited by Roken (2017-07-26 19:09:51)

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phobos-dthorga

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Re: Moving over /home dirs from root to new LVM partition

Thank you, @Roken, it worked perfectly! All ownership and permissions were perfectly preserved too :)