I will soon move my /home folder to a separate partition. There are hundreds of tutorials on how to do so, including here. While most agree on the basic steps, their details are very different. For copying files, for instance, some use rsync
, some cp
, and some find | cpio
(Ill use rsync
)
As for fstab entry, the options are puzzling me. The most common suggestions are:
UUID=xxx /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2
UUID=xxx /home ext3 defaults,error=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=xxx /home ext4 error=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=xxx /home ext3 defaults 1 2
Its hard to know if those suggestions are outdated or obsolete. So, for Ubuntu 10.04 onwards, what are the best / recommended parameters for an ext4 /home? nodev,nosuid? defaults? Nothing? And, most important, why?
EDIT:
So far, im inclined to use
UUID=xxx /home ext4 nodev,nosuid 1 2
But I would like some background on that