Moving Home 4677

On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:00:46 -0500, CWO4 Dave Mann

Nope, too simple :-)

I did that and upon rebooting I got the message thathome-dave wasn't to be found.

I used the error console option and did a bit of work with gedit and various mount, umount and so forth.

Seems that someplace there is a script which points tohome as a parbreastion (not as a folder name). The script expects to findhome and thenhome-dave and so forth.

I went back and forth using the console with my hdb1 set up with ahome directgory and with pointers inside fstab todev-hdb1-home, thenmnt-storage-home thenmnt-home.

NOne of these resulted in the system findinghome.

I was astonished to find out that I could not use a "rename" command to rename a directory. You see, I had renamed the originalhome (on hda1) as oldhome. IF I could have simply used the console to rename that directory back to home all would have gone a lot easier. I tried a lot of man combinations and looking up using my Ball and Duff RH FC3 Uleashed book's index. Nada on changing a directory's name. But, I digress.

I rebooted and came in as root, then changed everything back to the way it was. That is where we are now.

So, let's review:

1. Renamedhome tooldhome (folder on hda1) 2. Made a folder on hdb1 calledhome 3. cp -a {everything} fromoldhome tohome 4. Made foldermnt-home (also old foldermnt-storage remained) 6. Logged out and logged back in 7. On splash screen received error message thathome-dave could'nt be found. 8. Went to console and did a mount, found both hda and hdb mounted ok 9. Changed to mnt-home and found the contents of hdb1 10. Changed tomnt-storage and found nothing - showing that hdb1 was mounted properly asmnt-home 11. Tinkered around with LABEL= stuff 12. Edited fstab and changed back to original 13. Rebooted 14. Logged in as root on root x window and used super user folder gui to renameoldhome tohome; then went to hdb1 and renamedhome tonewhome 15. Logged out and logged back in as dave with x window gui 16. Here I am.

Interestingly, when I RTFM (my Ball and DUff book) it gives the same answer you gave about how to move to another HD .. it was not specific about justhome, but basically the same guidance.

I figure I am missing a step or thre.

I am thinking that (brain-storming now) maybe I need to do and fdisk and set up an actual parbreastion named "home" on hdb1 -- no matter that it will be the entire HD of 200 GB.

What say you alls?

Cheers,

Dave