how to move /home to separate partition

[ahurd]

I installed Feisty without putting /home on a separate partition. Can I now do it without buggering things up and how do I do it? Any advice will be appreciated.

[dibl]

Re: how to move /home to separate partition

Do you have another partition available, or did you use the whole disk?

[Qqmike]

Re: how to move /home to separate partition

# /dev/sdb6
UUID=5fab2bba-2912-48bc-85c8-a33b2f94c24d /home ext3 nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2

dibl -- there's my fstab for /home (Kubuntu is on sdb2 but home is on sdb6), if you need an example. (I spent the time fetching it, and so want to use it here!)

[dibl]

Re: how to move /home to separate partition

(I spent the time fetching it, and so want to use it here!)

Heh heh hehh -- Mike, you're the model of efficiency!


If the OP has another partition available, I was going to suggest a very simple plan of mounting it as "/media/mydata", then setting up links from /home to that one and copying the data over there, and leave /home alone.

[Rog131]

Re: how to move /home to separate partition

Create a separate home partition in Ubuntu
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

Introduction
This guide is for creating a separate /home partition if you already installed Ubuntu without a /home partition (i.e., /home is just a folder inside your / partition).

Ubuntu Kubuntu
gksudo gparted => kdesu gparted

[dwneylonsr]

Re: how to move /home to separate partition

Keep in mind that you have to umount the partition to resize it with GParted. As long as you can do that your golden, otherwise you'll need to get the Gparted Live CD. http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/

Everything you need to do is covered in the previous link by Rog131.

Added: Meant to mention that I just did this last night. Would've been much faster if I'd moved my mp3's somewhere out of home before copying it to the new partition.