Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:11:47 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org>, Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Subject: Re: moving /home to new drive Message-ID: <200707172211.50940.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <8b9a9ca79ee8718d603bd36a80fcaa94@szalbot.homedns.org> References: <200707180546.l6I5kaS9025869@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <8b9a9ca79ee8718d603bd36a80fcaa94@szalbot.homedns.org>
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On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Zbigniew Szalbot said: > Hello again, > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:46:36 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole > <on@cs.ait.ac.th> > > wrote: > >> Or do I need to delete the > >> symlink first and only then try to mount the new drive as /home? > > > > - delete the symlink > > OK > > > - create a directory /home > > Do I create it on the existing drive and > > > - mount the new drive > > then mount the new drive? I just want to make sure I unders > > > - copy the files > > > > You cannot mount a disk on a symlink and you cannot mount a disk > > until you have created the mount point. > > And what about samba? I just realized I will need to alter sama > configuration becasue current /usr/home is available as a network > share. Thank you once again! Copy the contents of home to your new drive. Delete everything inside /usr/home. Mount the new disk to /usr/home. Keeps your tree the same. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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