Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
Alastair Neil wrote:
I was hoping to avoid dedicating a whole partition to /home, so I'm
trying the symlink approach instead. Except procmail doesn't seem
to be
doing the right thing...
IMO a separate partition is a very sensible idea, it allows you to
upgrade and re-install the system without losing your precious data.
However in this case a bind mount might solve your problem:
mount -rbind /where-ever/home /home
That didn't work either...
I can execute procmail manually with a test message, and it just
doesn't work when the /home folder is symlinked or bind/rbind mounted.
(It works fine when the /home folder is a "normal" folder.)
No error message is given, which is odd.
- Mike
The whole story on my moving /home to another partition is short. I
made the new partition with 'fdisk' and then put an ext3 file system
down. Today I wish it was a bigger partition since photos and things are
big.
Anyhow then mount the new partition to your main and use cp -a * on
the name your using. You will want to leave /home to mount on. When done
put the proper line in fstab and then rename the name to old.name so it
is still there if you goof up. Then reboot and if it works rm old.name
and your done.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
