Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username
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Thanks for all your answers. I tested the no-symlinks-are-used option,
by merely mounting my new HDD into /home/merciadriluca/. It worked,
but not as much as I wanted. After being logged, my
/home/merciadriluca/'s content was the content of the new HDD, but I
was really deceived to lose all my preferences, /i.e./ wallpaper,
menus, shortcuts, applets (I mean `panel apps'), etc.
I then re-switched back to my old folder/directory, that I had
carefully renamed, i.e.
# mv merciadriluca merciadriluca.bak
before any attempt. After some adventures, I am back, actually safe
and sound, but at the same state as before.
There is something that I do not understand at all. Why are all my
shortcuts, prefs., etc., okay now, after having re-switched back to my
/home/merciadriluca/, when /home/merciadriluca/ was actually exactly the
content of /dev/sdc5 (which was mounted in /home/merciadriluca/, as
explained before), where /dev/sdc5 has the same content as
/home/merciadriluca/?
Hope it is clear. If not so, please tell me about it.
I am not really a professionnal with symlinks, but why can't I cd to
the symlink created as above? I am in /home/, with su rights. I then
# mkdir test
# ls -l /dev/sdc5 test
And then,
# cd test
gives me something like `test is not a directory.' (I had tested this
before messing (and playing) around with the other proposal).
Any idea?
Thanks.
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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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