[NBLUG/talk] moving directories

[E Frank Ball]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:49:48PM -0700, icdedpple wrote:
} To save space on a hard drive, I moved the user's home directories to 
} /dev/hdb.  I put symbolic links in /home.  I would like to do this with more 
} directories since /dev/hda is about 95% fulled up.  Are there any directories 
} that I should absolutely not do this with (besides /)?


Don't mess with /etc.   It must be in the / partition, and cannot be
it's own partition.  Don't mess with /boot either.

Instead of linking the /home directories why not copy the entire /home
over to the new partition, then mount that partition as /home?  I
usually build machines this way - it keeps my data on a separate
partition from the system, so the system can be blown away without
losing my data.

I usually move /usr/local to /home/local and symbolicly link it back,
you could do this with /var or /opt or whatever other partition you
wanted to.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com