[GTALUG] Replacing drive with /home

[Stephen]

On 14-12-28 10:45 AM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> On 12/28/2014 10:25 AM, Stephen wrote:
>>
>> I have one drive on my system that just has /home on it. It is getting
>> SMART warnings.
>>
>> I have the data backed up, and a new drive to replace it.
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 12.04.
>>
>> My question is regarding booting without a /home directory mounted.
>>
>> How do I go about booting, mounting and restoring my data?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> An easy approach, if you have both disks attached to the machine, is to
> change the fstab so that the new disk is mounted on /home and the old
> somewhere else, then log in as root and say
> umount /home, which will undo the existing mapping, and
> mount /home, which will create the new mapping.
>
> If you can't mount both disks, just swap the physical drives and log in
> as root.
> Root's home directory is /root, so it won't be affected by /home being
> empty,
> and you can do the restore.
>
> --dave

Thank you!

Operation complete :)

-- 
Stephen