Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

[Marcin Struzak]

> Easier way.
>
> 1. Add the new disk, partition it however you want. 2 partitions, one for 
> /home, one for /tmp. Make the filesystems.
>
> 2. As root, cp -Rp things over. Best to have as little activity as 
> possible. That is, not running X, not getting e-mail.

All that is really needed is runlevel 1, or boot single; no need for rescue 
CD, no need to worry about activity, etc.

Also, I'd probably do a

   cd /home; tar -cvf - | ( cd /mnt/home; tar -xvf - )
   cd /tmp; tar -cvf - | ( cd /mnt/tmp; tar -xvf - )

assuming that the new partitions are mounted at the same time under /mnt.

--Marcin