/home

[bmike101 at cox.net]

>  Mike, do this 
> sudo mount  
 
don't you mean 'sudo rm -f *'? :P  
 
Seriously though, with a livecd in and the hd with the 
root partition not mounted I can mount the partition 
with /home and seee stuff that was recently put there. 
  
Perhaps I stated it wrong..... 
'ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home' will make /hda4 my home partition? 
(provided I have the proper line in fstab -1-)  
 
So then 'ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home' makes the computer put '/
home' on '/mnt/hda4' so the result is '/mnt/hda4/home'? I 
think this is correct. 
 
-1- 
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 
 
> I think he already has data in /home and I don't know  
that he is correct  
> in thinking that his /home is on a separate partition  
but if it already  
> is, then he needs to do nothing.  
>   
> Mike - do this...  
>   
> sudo mount  
>   
> Craig  
>   
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:42 -0700, Gerard Snitselaar  
wrote:  
> > The proper use of ln -s is to first list the target  
you are  
> > linking to, and then the name of the link. So the  
following  
> > would be correct for creating the link /home:  
> >   
> > ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home  
> >   
> > NAME  
> >        ln - make links between files  
> >   
> > SYNOPSIS  
> >        ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME]  
> >        ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY  
> >        ln [OPTION]... --target-directory=DIRECTORY  
TARGET...  
> >   
> >   
> >   
> >   
> > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 05:32 -0800, bmike101 at cox.net  
wrote:  
> > > I want to reload mepis my old distro because of the   
> > > problems burning a new version. My /home is on it's  
own   
> > > partition. I don't remember how to tell Mepis the  
location   
> > > of /home (hda4). Is it 'ln -s <current /home> /mnt/ 
hda4'   
> > > or is it 'ln -s /mnt/hda4 <current /home>'? I think  
it is   
> > > the former but as I have said 'but what do I know:?)  
After   
> > > I do this will I need to delete the original /home?   
> > > What a pain in the butt this has turned out to be!   
> > >   
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