Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username
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Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com> writes:
> My belief is that a symlink is to be used when you want to refer to
> a single file or filesystem from more than one place or by more than
> one name. If you're wanting to use a newly added disk or partition
> to replace a directory, 'mount' is the best way to do that. (As best
> I can tell, this last is what you're trying to accomplish.)
I totally agree with you.
> And something's *got* to be broken for cd not to work...
We thus share the same point of view.
> My understanding of your situation is:
>
> You have 3 disks: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and /dev/sdc.
>
> sda is the disk that boots and is the disk with the / filesystem on it. And the /home dir, and your current home directory /mnt/merciadriluca.
>
> I have no idea what sdb is, but as long as one of its partitions isn't mounted on /home/merciadriluca, it can be ignored for now.
>
> sdc is a disk newly added to your system. You want its partition, sdc5, to be your home directory, /home/merciadriluca.
>
> And you want the new home dir to be an exact clone of the existing one.
>
> Is this correct?
According to your says (comprising the last message you sent), you are
right about your understanding of the situation.
I have lots of drives, but the two important ones which are of
importance here are:
*/dev/sda, containing /
*/dev/sdc5, the partition where I have copied the content of
/home/merciadriluca/ , and which should be mounted in
/home/merciadriluca/. I would have finished with this if all my
settings were correctly interpreted, or at least recognized. The sdc
is my new disk.
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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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