On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 02:46, William Brown wrote: > Since I'm getting tired of reading I was hoping someone could help me out. I > installed ML in a single 2GB primary partition on my disk. I use Partition > Commander to organize my drive. Windows is in the second primary partition. > Linux swap is in the third primary partition. 4th p. partition is extended. > I would like to create a second swap partition and move /home (and whatever > else) to the extended partition. Creating the partitions is no problem, but > I'm not clear how to move the /home directories and setup Linux to see/mount > them and the swap. Can someone point me to the right How To or give > instructions. > > William Brown
However you're wanting to move /home, you're going to have to login as root, unmount the /home partition, copy it and it's permission to it's new locale, then remount the /home partition. This can be a bit tricky, so make sure you back up your stuff prior to getting too deeply involved mate... -- Fri Apr 4 04:35:00 EST 2003 04:35:00 up 13 days, 16:22, 3 users, load average: 0.38, 0.22, 0.18 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Women professionals do tend to over-compensate. -- Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", stardate 1312.9.
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