/home

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:38 -0800, bmike101 at cox.net wrote:
> >  Mike, do this 
> > sudo mount  
>  
> don't you mean 'sudo rm -f *'? :P  
>  
> Seriously though, with a livecd in and the hd with the 
> root partition not mounted I can mount the partition 
> with /home and seee stuff that was recently put there. 
>   
> Perhaps I stated it wrong..... 
> 'ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home' will make /hda4 my home partition? 
> (provided I have the proper line in fstab -1-)  
>  
> So then 'ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home' makes the computer put '/
> home' on '/mnt/hda4' so the result is '/mnt/hda4/home'? I 
> think this is correct. 
>  
> -1- 
> /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 
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yeah it's mounted but it ain't your /home

you can verify that by looking at the file date & times...

for example...from your login, create a file... touch ~/test.file and
save it in your home directory...

ls -l ~/test.file

will show the file

ls -l /mnt/nda4/test.file

will not show the file

btw...you won't be able to ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home because it exists and
has data in it. You are barking up the wrong tree. And, as you will
undoubtedly find in my example above, /home exists and isn't /mnt/hda4

Craig