Comments on: Moving /home to its own partition

By: lex

lex — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:45:52 +0000

Thank you for the guide. Unfortunately I can not copy my old Home folder to the new Partition. It’s weird, I created a 15gb Partition (ext4) for home, then I mounted it and started to copy the files. If I look for properties of the old home folder it says 20000 Items, totalling 4.9gb. But the copying process takes very long. There is much more data than 4.9gb copied. Even the 15gb Partition is too small. Everything else seems to work. Why is more then 4.9 Data being copied?

By: Nils

Nils — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:36:53 +0000

Ivan,

Thanks for your careful step by step guide! Now I’ve got my home on a new ext4 partition. I increased the Google search result order for your side. I tried this guide here that Google listed first but it got me into big trouble: http://www.ubuntu4life.com/node/30

After a near nervous breakdown I have access to my new home folder again!

Nils

By: AdPijnenburg

AdPijnenburg — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:45:15 +0000

Thanks, my /home moved without any problems.

AdP

By: SteveG

SteveG — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:13:14 +0000

Many thanks for taking the time to post this.

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:32:22 +0000

Very nice. Easy to use.
I did, however, have the problem of not being able to log in. Said something about trying to log in as root, then said I had no permissions.
I had to adjust the /etc/fstab file (Step 7) to this:

/dev/??? /home ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

Once I did this, everything was great!
Thanks for the help!

By: fishears

fishears — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:37:42 +0000

Thank you for this simple yet comprehensive (and most importantly – ACCURATE) guide.
It worked perfectly.