Question about installation from a live CD

[JD Austin]

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
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Josef Lowder <joe at 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
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