Question about installation from a live CD

[Stephen]

but if you do it as i say its kinda dirty...

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 at 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 at 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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> Stephen
>



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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen