On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:40:46 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi, > > For some reason (most likely my self), the home directory ended up in a > partition where I do not want it to be. Can I move the home directory to the > partition where I want it to be? > > Can I log in as root and move the home directory? the home directory for the > root user is on the partition called "/" and I would not be moving it in this > operation. > > Currently I have: > /home in the /dev/hde2 partition and I want it to go on /dev/hde3 partition > instead. > The /dev/hde3 partition is currently mounted on a directory /mnt/hd. Also > /mnt/hd holds some files that I want to continue to use. > > I want /hde3 mounted on /home...... ok I think I got it. This is what I will > do once I recieve some blessings from this list: > > I move the directories currently under /home to /mnt/hd, then I change one > line in /etc/fstab to make /dev/hde3 mount on /home instead of /mnt/hd. I > think this will preserve the contents of the user home directories and also > those files that are now in the /mnt/hd directory.
Seedkum, That should work fine. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Also note how I said that it is the BSD people I despise. Not the HP-UX implementation. The HP-UX one is not pretty, but it works. But I hold open source people to higher standards. They are supposed to be the people who do programming because it's an art-form, not because it's their job." -- Linus Torvalds
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