or do the chown permissions check and then just alter your mount for hda7 in fstab clearing out the contents of home so it can be a new mount point.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM, JD Austin <j...@twingeckos.com> wrote: > First chown the old directories to have the same owner and permissions they > used to. > Then move the new home to home2 (or whatever). > Then either symlink or create a mount point to the old home. > reboot. > If all is well then you can delete home2 (or whatever). > JD > -- > JD Austin > Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC > j...@twingeckos.com > 480.288.8195x201 > http://www.twingeckos.com > > > Mitch Hedberg - "I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle." > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Josef Lowder <j...@actionline.com> wrote: >> >> In reinstalling my Linux system, I ended up with two /home/joe >> directories -- a new one on my hda5 partition that I designated as "/" >> and another on partition hda7 where it had been from my original >> installation. All of my original files are still in the /home/joe >> directory on partition hda7 (which is what I was trying to preserve). >> That part worked out fine. But how do I get rid of the extra >> /home/joe directory that the reinstallation put on hda5 and make the >> /home/joe directory on hda7 the one that the system finds. >> >> I've posted a jpg of the partition layout at this link: >> http://www.upquick.com/view/partition.jpg >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
