On Wednesday 26 January 2005 23:10, Ian wrote: > 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
No Users and Groups is where you define new users. MandrakeControlCentre>MountPoints>Partitions is where you define partitions. If you have empty space on your hard drive just click on the empty space and define a partition on it. Select the mount point to be /home. If you have no free space you may resize an existing partition, but it is not possible to resize a partition that is currently already mounted. The GUI allows you to unmount a partition, but you cannot unmount a partition currently in use. If you have just a single partition consuming the whole drive then it is not easy to alter it unless you boot from a Mandrakemove Live CD, or Knoppix if you prefer. (MandrakeMove will have the more familiar tools) If you have valuable data, then make a backup first. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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