>It really shouldn't be this hard... > >Bob Miller I know one thing I screwed up was when I mounted my partition I typed "mount /newpartition" instead of "mount /mnt/newpartition" so that when I tarred all the files to /mnt/newpartiton it created a new /home directory there rather than on the newpartition. I think that's why the partition appeared to be fine on one system but totally blank (except for lost+found) when I moved the drive to another system.
At one point I also managed to get a symlink from my newpartition which pointed back to /home on my / (root) partition. I found this out when I tried creating a test file on the newpartition (using touch test.txt) and later saw the same file had showed up on my /home partition. It kind of freaked me out at first but then I realized it was probable just due to a link having been created (maybe by mistyping the cp command? I don't know how else I could have done it.) Well anyway, I couldn't figure out how to unlink /mnt/newpartition/home from /home so I ended up deleting the newpartition and starting all over again. Many other strange things happened along the way but I won't go into them now. I'm just glad I finally got it to work. Cheers, Dexter
