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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