On Thursday 21 December 2006 14:03, HG wrote: > > 2) If it is its own partition, why are you using the Partitioner? > > Unless you want to create a new and bigger partition and eventually get > > rid of the current /home. > > Why am I using Partitioner? Hmmm... I'm trying to do something with > the partitions - isn't that what the Partitioner is designed to do? To > be honest YaST has many great things (and other not too hot) and that > is about the only thing that sets SUSE apart from the other distros. > All of them have command line, but there is a new generation of us > linux users. I'm in the between: I'm comfortable at the command > prompt, but I do not know my way around there that much. Partitioner > is simple and easy to find. Why not use it?
But again, you didn't say what you were trying to make the partitioner do... The partitioner is to create/delete/resize partitions, none of which you have said you are doing... (yet) If you are not CHANGING your partition, all you really are doing is changing the mount point for a current partition. That doesn't require the partitioner. > > > 3) If (2) is not the case, then all you need to do is to umount /home > > from its current mount point and remount it at /local/home which would > > require either Yast or Partitioner and should take about 10 seconds. > > I tried to remove the mount point in Partitioner. That fails with the > same error message. Anybody know what that means? > I've never used the partitioner (and will refuse to do so because I don't really trust it) but I can't believe the partitioner is to be used to change mount points. It might be something that it will do, but it's not what its real purpose is. > > 4) If (2) is correct, then I myself still wouldn't use Yast to do any of > > this but some people would. I would create the new partition. mount it > > at /local/home and rsync or cp the files from /home over to it. > > I'm trying to move the mount point from /home to /local/home as I want > to import another home by NFS and NIS. > From a command line, while you are not logged on as a normal user: (logout of KDE and when the login screen comes up again, do a ctl=alt-f<num> to get a console session. Login as root. umount /home mkdir /local/home mount /dev/sda3 /local/home Tough, wasn't it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
