Today i decided to migrate all of my /home directory to my another ‘idle’ partition. I have 3 (three) partion on my HDD consist : Vista, Data, and Linux partiton. Vista and Data are in nfts format and my Linux is ext3. Since i never using Vista anymore lately and automatically the Data partition also, i decided to make the Data partition become my /home mount point.

To make that happens i did this following steps :

• Boot into recovery mode
• Format the Data partition
  # I dont have any important data, so i decided to format it
  away without do any backup
  $sudo cfdisk /dev/sda2 #choose 83 (linux) and write !
$sudo mkfs.ext3
• mount /dev/sda2 to /media/data
  $sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/data
• copy all /home directory to /media/data
  $sudo cp -Rp /home/* /media/data/ #'R' options keeps all files permission as its original
$sudo cp -Rp /home/vcool/.* /media/data/vcool/ #copy all configurations files
• Time to get an extra space (6.5 Gb)
  $sudo rm -rf /home/*
• Edit the /etc/fstab file, change /dev/sda2 mount point into /home and ext3 as its file system :
  
/dev/sda2 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

• Reboot ... and viola .. i got an extra space for my linux system

And now im thinking about my /dev/sda1 partition, what should i do with that partition ? OSX ? uheuehuhee lets see