Move default 'home' and some opinions

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM, cherryfinals <cherryfinals at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi Gang!
>
> I just upgraded my system to 2.5Tb of drive space and 4Gb of ram. Then, I
> installed 9.10 from a clean CD. The good news is that everything worked
> great after a modicum of fiddling.
>
> The bad news is that I seem to have misplaced my directions for making
> another drive the default home folder. A good friend helped me set it up
> last year.
>
The usual way is to mount your new partion at /home.  So if your new drive
is /dev/sdb and your desired partition is /dev/sdb1 you would execute
mount /dev/sdb1 /home
if that works, you make it happen at book by editing your /etc/fstab to make
it happen at boot.

To be a little more modern, use either a label or UUID for the partition.  I
think Kubuntu uses UUIDs so you fstab would look like:
UUID=84a46ac2-fb27-4cc0-bb35-fcdb77e140a7 /home      ext3
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1

I thought I knew how to find the UUID, but it isn't working.  Someone?

If you goal is to use a different name than /home, say /newhome, you would
first have to get it to mount there as above, then edit /etc/passwd to put
each user's home at /newhome.

Michael
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