err nevermind that last post...
Im soo not reading thoroughly today!
back to sleep, i go!

On 8/21/05, Alexander Mahabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On 8/19/05, Ben Stern < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 06:57:46PM -0400, J. Milgram wrote:
> Suggest you use reiser or ext3 rather than ext2, but ext2 good enough.
>
> something approximately like this might work
> mke2fs /dev/hda4

or
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda4

> mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
> mv /home/* /mnt
> umount /mnt

mkdir /home   #but it probably was a given =)

> add a line to /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hda4        /home            reiserfs    defaults         1   2

Make sure the third word here matches your filesystem type - ext2, ext3, or
reiserfs.

> then:
> mount /home
>
> should pick it up then when it boots.
> Good luck, hope that doesn't mess up your system :)

Ben
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