Hi,
I think that after you mounted the new partition as /home, it hides the
previous /home directory that you had (since the desktop settings are
stored there, this explains why your desktop has changed). I think that
what you should do is unmount this directory (using 'umount'), move your
/home directory to some other place (eg 'mv /home /home1'), then mount
back, and then move the contents of (say) /home1 to /home
('mv /home1/* /home').
HTH
Moshe
* Marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020222 21:31]:
> On Friday 22 February 2002 09:45, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > Marcia wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I meant to setup my partitions differently when I installed LM8.1. I
> > > ended up just mounting one small partition and now I would like to add
> > > or mount a partition to give my LM and vmware more room. I have about 8
> > > GB's of disk space covering a masterIDE drive and slave IDE drive. I for
> > > some strange reason only mounted my /dev/hda1 partition which is a little
> > > over 2 GB's. I have a small swap partition then a /dev/hda6 partition
> > > that is over 4 Gb's formatted as linux native, then a slave drive
> > > /dev/hdb which is about 2 Gb's formatted as linux native. Neither of
> > > those partitions are mounted. I would like to mount and use /dev/hda6 but
> > > being the newbie I am I do not know the best way to do this without
> > > corrupting anything. What are the steps to take? Do I do this in
> > > DiskDrake, Linuxconf, or another way? I do not want to lose any data on
> > > the partitions. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very
> > > much.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Marcia Waller
> >
> > Marcia, if you run KDE, here's a "newbie"-way : Right-click an empty
> > spot on your desktop, then select "run command". This opens a box, whre
> > you can type : kdf. Now, click "run". You'll now see all your
> > partitions, provided they are mentioned in /etc/fstab. Simply select a
> > unmounted partition, rigt-click it and select the option : "mount
> > device". You can even open it in a file-manager right away.
> >
> > Here's the "pro" way : from a terminal, type : "man mount" and read
> > carefully, taking notes ! Then, set aside ten minutes for drills, and
> > you at least one inch taller !
> >
> > If still unsuccesful, post your /etc/fstab file to the list.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich
>
> Thanks very much for your suggestion. Unfortunately , I jumped the gun
> yesterday and decided to go to the Mandrake Control Center and use Diskdrake
> to mount the already existing ext2 partion in /dev/hda6. I mounted it as the
> /home partition although I have a /home directory on my mounted /root
> partition at /dev/hda1. After I did this I could no longer launch Diskdrake
> and the run command above will not work. I can get to my /etc/fstab through
> the command line. Here it is:
>
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> My desktop changed without my changing it and I have not been able to print
> from applications now. My email address book changed, too, and alot of
> missing emails. I think I royally messed up a few things with some good ole
> newbie action. Could someone help me through this? My goal is to move my
> /home directory to my new /home partition on /dev/hda6 which is an ext2
> formatted partition that I just mounted and named /home. I have been doing
> alot of reading about this and it sounds like using the tar command would be
> the best way to go. Any help with how to use it for what I want to do: move
> /home/marcia directory to /home partition- will be greatly appreciated. Could
> someone help me straighten out the mess I made plus accomplish what I was
> trying in the first place? Thanks for your help.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Marcia
>
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