Thursday, January 29, 2015

[How-to] Mount /home to another disk partition

[How-to] Mount /home to another disk partition

I need to free up some space in my linux(Ubuntu) main partition. I decided to move my /home folder to another partition. So I did the following, as instructed here, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving:

~$ sudo blkid
~$ sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
~$ cmp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
~$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
    and appended
    UUID=????????  /media/home  ext4  defaults  0  2 
~$ sudo mkdir /media/home
~$ sudo mount -a
~$ sudo rsync -aXS --exclude='/*/.gvfs' /home/. /media/home/.
~$ sudo diff -r /home /media/home
~$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
     and edited /media/home to /home
~$ cd / && sudo mv /home /old_home && sudo mkdir /home
~$ reboot
~$ sudo rm -r /old_home
~$ sudo rmdir /media/home

Kali Linux - My Disaster Recovery Script

~# update-rc.d ssh enable

~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
        deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free
   deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free

~# echo export http_proxy=\"http://userid:password@proxyaddressordomainname:8080/\" >> ~/.bashrc
~# echo export https_proxy=\"http://userid:password@proxyaddressordomainname:8080/\" >> ~/.bashrc
~# echo export ftp_proxy=\"http://userid:password@proxyaddressordomainname:8080/\" >> ~/.bashrc
~# echo export all_proxy=\"socks://userid:password@proxyaddressordomainname:8080/\" >> ~/.bashrc

~# openvas-mkcert
~# oepnvas-mkcert-client -i
~# openvas-nvt-sync --wget OV_HTTP_FEED
~# openvassd
~# openvasmd --rebuild --progress
~# openvasmd --create-user=openvasadmin --new-password=1234567890
~# openvasmd -p 9390 -a 0~# gsad --http-only --listen=0 -p 9392~# openvas-check-setup