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 -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC jd@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingeckos.com Mitch Hedberg - "I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle." On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Josef Lowder 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >