On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 22:48, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Wednesday 26 January 2005 22:43, Ian wrote: > > Since the list is convinced that Home is better if it is in a separate > > partition, what is the best and easiest way to accomplish this. At > > present, Home is in the same partition as the rest of the distro > > (standard install). How do I ensure if I move the contents of Home to a > > new partition that all links will change? > > The easy way is simply to define your new /home partition with Mandrake > Control Centre. > > It will recognise that there are already files in /home on the old > partition and will offer to copy them to the new partition for you.
I take it, the part that allows me to specify where home is in System/Users and groups? I'd really hate to screw up what is an extremely stable setup :-) But Mandrake will move release new distros and I'd also hate to make an install harder.......or even worse, lose all the data accumulated -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free
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