[FC5} Moving /home

[M.Lewis]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> M.Lewis wrote:
>> There was a long thread about this a while back:
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>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=113379388022758&w=2
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>> I didn't see any reference to this in the thread:
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>> - doesn't /etc/passwd have to be edited for the new location?
>>
>> - I'm not sure if /etc/passwd is what handles this or not, but are
>> there symlinks that are needed so 'cd' and applications know where ~
>> is?
>>
>> I've been wanting to do this for a long time. Finally getting a
>> roundtuit.
> 
> Unless I'm reading that thread wrong, it's about moving /home to
> another partition.  The cool part about the *nix style disc layout is
> that when you move the contents of /home and remount it, all of your
> programs still find /home.  If you moved drives in windows then you'd
> have to edit things to reference the new drive letter (or so it was
> when I last played with windows, I don't really know or care if
> they've improved on that :).
> 

Thanks Todd. So you're saying /etc/passwd does NOT have to be edited?

I failed to mention, the disk that I'm wanting to move /home to is 
already mounted.

Thanks,
Mike


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