or do the chown permissions check and then just alter your mount for
hda7 in fstab clearing out the contents of home so it can be a new
mount point.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM, JD Austin <
jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
> 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
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>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> 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
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