Home move under Ubuntu so it works
Before the move, you should make a Backup of the Home directory. The directory is on the system partition.
- First of all you should find out if the selected Partition is not large enough for the Home directory. You therefore start the Terminal and type the command "du-sh /home". So you know the size of the Home directory of the new Partition should have at least this volume.
- To avoid unwanted side effects, you must log out of the graphical user interface. Press the key combination [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F1] to the text console and log in with your user name and password.
- For the following commands, you need Root-rights. You can get it temporarily by typing the command "sudo-s cd/".
- You can use the command "fdisk -l" is a list of the existing partitions and make a note of the name of the desired Partition. In our example it is "/dev/sda5". For the following commands, replace this with the name of your own Partition.
- With the command line "mkdir /mnt/tmp mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/tmp" mount the Partition on the mount point.
- Start copying with "rsync -avx --progress /home/ /mnt/tmp". Very important is the Slash at the end of "home is here": Without this you can not only copy the contents of the folder, but the folder itself.
- Then you can mount the Partition with "mount /dev/sda5 /home" in the /home directory. With "du-sh /home; mount|grep /home" allows you to check that everything was copied correctly. As an output, then the size of the Partition should be (in our case 2.5 GB) and the following: "2.5 G /home /dev/sda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)"
Ubuntu: open Terminal
So you use the new Home Partition
- The old /home directory, you can delete it now. The command for this is: "umount /home rm-rf /home/*".
- The new Partition to be integrated into the system start-up, you need to determine the UUID with the command "blkid". As the output shows "[...] /dev/sda5: UUID="YOUR ID number" TYPE="ext3" [...]" Instead of "identification number", you should have a number and letter combination to see. Copy this UUID and enter it with "UUID=YOUR identification number /home ext3 defaults 0 2" in "/etc/fstab".
- This step you can perform before you go to the console level, and the Home directory move. Since /etc/fstab is on every system start to read, you can edit it easily from within the running System.
In a further practical tip around Ubuntu, we will show you how to use the installation process to view can.
