No, 'ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home' wouldn't put /home on /mnt/hda4 it
would create the link /home -> /mnt/hda4 . Which would mean
when you cd to /home, what you would be seeing is the contents of
/mnt/hda4/ . A symbolic link just points the the location of something
else. Depending on the length of the path being linked it either gets
stored in the inode itself or in the file.

Yes you could mount the partition with home wherever
you want and see what is in there. I know nothing about mepis
and its desire to mount everything as /mnt/hd*, so I can't help
with what kind of entry you would need in /etc/fstab. Is it already
mounted? /mnt/hda4 sounds like a mount point for /dev/hda4. I am
guessing if it is not mounted, what you really need to mount is
/dev/hda4. Use the mount command as Craig suggested and see what
exactly is mounted and where. If it is not mounted then you can
mount it wherever you want to look at it.


On Mon, February 13, 2006 9:38 am, bmike101@cox.net wrote:
>>  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@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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