-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 M.Lewis wrote: > > There was a long thread about this a while back: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=113379388022758&w=2 > > I didn't see any reference to this in the thread: > > - 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 :). - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. -- Teague's Paradox -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQFDBAEBAgAtBQJFE3syJhhodHRwOi8vd3d3LnBvYm94LmNvbS9+dG16L3BncC90 bXouYXNjAAoJEEMlk4u+rwzj+3EIALD82cdjSXnmM40CMTWVj59dlwBQxX9FLpQu hpey4N1JGQAf9QsDszSwdJfQFxZY+idmSNakLUY/2ImwDf8TAusvii4uyI4r/LVq U7JJ76ka9a6M7YqRefpjqH0TwLEeX8N0tty7EeGfUcvz0JdCZwxr++I/mKsC2iUO M32firrIDoiKpmNnT+bzLdkrfmCZ83Io6aGOipwOLXyLv1/dQZQCcbiWImBvVbkq RkU7hu4A9r4xfLvtMBXww7B4HH7CTsumL6FDjJTartG4/1LAz6F083ko6GG1X0sF ngJaPCc7esfRLfEr1JPAsFg+vJ3CwNmhdjW0TSEOI0ZQb2fLP1I= =HfMm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
