[NTLUG:Discuss] moving /home to another disk

[Lance Simmons]

* John Thomas <jathomas at tacni.net> [050919 21:08]:
> I installed a second disk on my machine, and I'd like to put the /home 
> directory on it.
> I thought I could copy /home to the second disk and change fstab thusly:
> /dev/sdb1      /home     ....[other params]
> 
> This returns the message that /home doesn't exist.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Make sure /home still exists on the main partition.  It should exist and
be completely empty.  /dev/sdb1 should contain all the contents you want
in /home.

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Lance Simmons