well now I need to work on the other computer a little. I wanted to move the print server's /home to it's own partition but the partition i want to use is too small. So, my question is what do I need to copy? /home//documents i know I need but what else? I guess that is it. If there is space I suppose Downloads too. And to get it to see /dev/sda3 as the new location for documents I would 'export /home//documents=/mnt/sda3/documents. Copying the documemts would be: 'rsync -va --checksum /mnt/home/documents /mnt/sda3. does this sound right? On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > well.... I am learning. I realized that I NEED to put the home directory > on its own partition. Take that as a warning you newbies from the > longest-newbie on this list! > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> oh my GOSH! It worrked!.... unless it is mounting it wrong.... but I >> think it is because I had to make the directory /home . >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> well... I know it is mounting home.. I go to /mnt/home/bmike1 and my >>> files are there. I know mount it to /home not/mnt/home!. Here's hoping for >>> the best! >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4: PM, Michael Havens wrote: >>> >>>> ARGHHHHHH! >>>> I just restored my mint install and the restore is not working. I >>>> thought I archived it with it working. What it is doing: I login with my >>>> preferred user and enter my password and the screen blanks like it is >>>> loading the user and then it goes back to the login screen. (like before) I >>>> fixed this problem before but don't remember how I did it. >>>> >>>> Michaels-Laptop ~ # blkid >>>> /dev/sda1: LABEL="mint" UUID="9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-beb5d83917b2" >>>> TYPE="ext4" >>>> /dev/sda5: UUID="d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-1e531cedfd1c" TYPE="swap" >>>> /dev/sda6: LABEL="home" UUID="0b781dc5-1a6f-4e0b-8e9a-5777d6650196" >>>> TYPE="ext4" >>>> /dev/sda7: LABEL="entertainment" >>>> UUID="9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-5dd63fab9775" TYPE="ext4" >>>> /dev/sda8: UUID="901bb4e2-46ee-45e8-b6e8-7a89ad04587b" TYPE="ext4" >>>> /dev/sda9: LABEL="backtrack" >>>> UUID="b75029ca-b18f-4310-8800-916ef23ea3cf" TYPE="ext4" >>>> Michaels-Laptop ~ # >>>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. >>>> # >>>> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a >>>> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name >>>> devices >>>> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). >>>> # >>>> # >>>> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 >>>> #mint >>>> >>>> UUID=9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-beb5d83917b2 / ext4 >>>> errors=remount-ro 0 1 >>>> # swap >>>> UUID=d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-1e531cedfd1c none swap >>>> sw 0 0 >>>> #home >>>> UUID=0b781dc5-1a6f-4e0b-8e9a-5777d6650196 /mnt/home/bmike1 ext4 >>>> nodev,nosuid 0 2 >>>> #backtrack >>>> UUID=b75029ca-b18f-4310-8800-916ef23ea3cf /mnt/backtrack ext4 >>>> nodev,nosuid 0 2 >>>> #entertainment >>>> UUID=9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-5dd63fab9775 /mnt/entertainment ext4 >>>> nodev,nosuid 0 2 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: