On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 23:48, Derek Jennings wrote: > 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 Many thanks, Derek. my /home is now a new partition, and all worked well. although I did cheat and used partition magic to create it, then as above :-) Now to wait for 10.2 official .................. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free
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