Make a new partition /home

Crooksey · 2007-01-28 12:00:59

On one of my machines arch was running alongside XP, now i have removed XP how can i make that new partition /home?

I have formatted it, made it xfs,now where to i go from here? (wanting to keep all my theme settings etc)

T-Dawg · 2007-01-28 12:19:52

create a temporary mount point for it in /mnt/, mount it and use cp -a to copy the contents over. From there you can remove your original /home and replace it by remounting the new one you created in /mnt.

Crooksey · 2007-01-28 15:33:49

Whats the correct numbering to place in it to my new fstab ?

Cerebral · 2007-01-28 16:37:07

Crooksey wrote:

Whats the correct numbering to place in it to my new fstab ?

My fstab is ordered like:

removable devices (noauto)

swap
/
/boot
/home

Crooksey · 2007-01-28 17:36:47

i Mean...

/dev/sda3 / xfs defaults 0 1
#/dev/sda4 /home xfs defaults 0 1

Are the 0's and 1's correct for /home ?

hugin · 2007-01-28 17:56:59

Crooksey wrote:

i Mean...
/dev/sda3 / xfs defaults 0 1
#/dev/sda4 /home xfs defaults 0 1
Are the 0's and 1's correct for /home ?

That is the way mine is. Now the way I understand it; from 'man fstab' is that the first 0 tells the dump command something (i've never actually seen anything here.) and the last 1 is the order in which fscks are run at reboot. / should be 1, any others 2+. now here is the kicker, partitions on the same drive get checked sequentially, so I would assume it wouldn't matter as long as it is non-zero; (as long as your / partition is closer to 0 than /home). Maybe I'm wrong, but that is the way I've interpreted it.

/swogs

mutlu_inek · 2007-01-28 18:48:42

The fifth entry has to do with automated backups. I never dealt with this, though.

A zero as the last (sixth) entry means that the filesystem will not be checked at all. This is the case for swap, proc, floppy and CD drives, etc. But it can also be handy in case there are known problems and you might want to ignore them until you get your hands on a backup drive (well, in that case do not automount).

The root file system should always get "1" so that it will be checked first.

All other filesystems are to be attributed a "2". They will be checked after /. I have never seen values over two. hugin, did you ever set it to three?

Last edited by mutlu_inek (2007-01-28 18:49:47)

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#1 2007-01-28 12:00:59

Make a new partition /home

#2 2007-01-28 12:19:52

Re: Make a new partition /home

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Re: Make a new partition /home

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Re: Make a new partition /home

#5 2007-01-28 17:36:47

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#6 2007-01-28 17:56:59

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