Add some?  :)

Actually it sounds like it's "copying, then deleting" (safe) vs. 
"moving", so if you're short diskspace, you'll need to just move it, 
change your /etc/passwd and group file for the user/uid, and chown -r 
the directory to the new username/uid.

Matrix's method presumes you have temp disk space, but looks like you're 
doing it the hard way manipulating ownerships and such from root user.

-mb


On 04/02/2012 02:09 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> hmmmmm. It just ran out of disk space. Any suggestions on what I can do
> about that?
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     thanks for explainig the rationale of putting the old user name last.
>
>
>     On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Matrix Mole <matrixm@gmail.com
>     <mailto:matrixm@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         If the account you are trying to change is your current account,
>         it may be easier to login as root to make the changes (just to
>         prevent any existing programs in memory trying to use the old
>         username/directory). I'd also use the command as follows:
>
>         usermod -l <newuser> -md <newuser> <olduser>
>
>         since an existing username needs to be at the end (so the
>         command knows what user account to modify).
>
>
>         On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
>         <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             I'll use usermod then. Thanks for letting me know about it.
>             so I think this is the proper syntax. Will this work?
>
>                sudo usermod -l <olduser> <newuser> -dm <newuser>
>
>
>             On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Matrix Mole
>             <matrixm@gmail.com <mailto:matrixm@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 If you are changing your username, there is flags to the
>                 usermod command that can help change the home directory.
>                 The -d flag to usermod will update /etc/passwd with the
>                 users home directory, and the -m flag will move the old
>                 directory to the new name. I'm pretty sure that usermod
>                 will also take care of the ownership issues as well.
>                 Check 'man usermod' for more details on this. If you
>                 don't use the usermod command, then there is also the
>                 ownership issue to consider with changing home
>                 directory. The chown command can help make sure the
>                 directory is owned by the correct user with 'chown -R
>                 {username} [homedir]' command.
>
>
>
>                 On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Michael Havens
>                 <bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                     Thanks. Is that the only thing I have to worry about?
>
>
>                     On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Patricia Wilson
>                     <wilson.pr.gm@gmail.com
>                     <mailto:wilson.pr.gm@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                         Note that your home directory name appears in
>                         the /etc/passwd file so the system knows where
>                         you "live" when you login. If you change the
>                         name of that directory you need to change your
>                         entry in the passwd file to match.
>
>                         On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Michael Havens
>                         <bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                             How would I accomplish this? Is it as easy
>                             as just moving the old name to the new name;
>                             or should I do a 'find -r / <old
>                             directory>|mv - <newdirectory'?
>
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