CORRECTION Re: firefox-37, where to put

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 03 April 2015 10:01:43 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 08:47:11 Reco wrote:
> > > I assume only by mounting a new drive at some temporary location,
> > > copying all the installed data from /home to it, then fixing fstab to
> > > mount that drive on top of the existing /home directory?  I have done
> > > that in the past, but not in the last half decade as drives are
> > > outrageously big now.
> >
> > More-or-less yes. You forgot to mention emptying old home, but all
> > needed stuff is there.
>
> I would say *instead of*, not *on top of*.  And copying over is easy, when
> your new home is mounted via fstab.
>
> mkdir /oldhome
>
> mnt <oldhome> /oldhome

SHOULD BE:

mount <oldhome> /oldhome

My thanks to Reco for drawing this to my attention.

Lisi
>
> cp -Rpu /oldhome/. /home/
>
> Though you could, of course, do it in the other order, mounting <oldhome>
> as /home.  But it would still be easy.
>
> Lisi