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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:49:10 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>>> or is it |
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>>> as simple as coping all file from "home" partition to "/" home folder. |
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>> That's what I would do. First, umount /home. Mount /home somewhere |
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>> else like /mnt/tmp or something. Copy everything from /mnt/tmp to |
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>> /home. Make sure to remove any entries in fstab for /home too. Then |
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>> umount /mnt/tmp and carry on. I don't think I'm missing anything. |
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> Or you can bind mount / somewhere and copy /home to home on the bind |
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> mount, saves unmounting anything. |
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> mount --bind / /mnt/tmp |
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> rsync -a /home/ /mnt/tmp/home/ |
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True. I'm not to familiar with bind mounting, unless I copy and paste |
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from a wiki or something. Would be easier tho. ;-) |
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>> I'm with Thomas tho, I've always kept /home on a separate partition. It |
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>> has made things easier when I have to reinstall, lose a drive etc etc. |
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>> Things happen and having eggs in separate baskets can help. That said, |
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>> if it will work best for your needs or circumstances or both, then it is |
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>> what it is. |
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> Agreed, it also helps with backing up you are likely to have different |
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> requirements for backing up the OS, which is replaceable, and your data, |
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> which isn't. |
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> -- Neil Bothwick First Law of Laboratory Work: Hot glass looks exactly |
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> the same as cold glass. |
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I like your sigs. Sometimes they have me rolling. ROFL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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