RE: User Directories
On 03-Mar-99 Mark Yobb wrote:
> What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different
> partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?)
> that user info like home directory is stored.
cp -a /home /wherever/
mv /home /home.bak
ln -s /wherever/home /home
... TEST ...
rm -r /home.bak
>
> Also I was wonder what the most dependable way to mount a drive on boot
> was? Can you do this with in a standard '/etc/rcX.d' file or with the
> kernel or something? When my machine boots one of the messages that
> comes up is 'not mounting anthing . . . ' (or something like that). I
> know I could do it by putting a mount /dev/hdXX in my /etc/profile file
> but I get a feeling there is a more system smart method of doing this.
>
Add the entry to /etc/fstab. Do a man fstab and read what is there, should get
you going.
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