How do I make a /home partition?

[Edward78]

I have 2 unused patitions on my Linux drive left over from when I tries PC-BSD 1.3. One at the begining of the drive 1.1 gig & one at the end 2.9 gig. It would be a good idea to use them for something don't you think?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I don't know how *BSD does it, but on Linux I'd use LVM, Logical Volume Management, to combine the two into a single logical partition that the machine would treat as a single unit. I'd then format UFS or whatever, cp the contents of /home, and add it to fstab to mount as /home automatically.

 

[refresh]

BSD works in the same way.

 

[Edward78]

I meant more like a "merge partion" option.

 

[fumbles]

You can use GParted to change around with partitions...