Creating new partition for user files

[Steve]

On 10/6/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 09:40 -0400, Steve wrote:
> > Thanks... actually there are a lot of hidden directories in there.
> > Looks like personal settings for a lot of programs, including Wine's
> > "fake windows" directories.
>
> This is not the /home directory, this is your USER directory
> (/home/YOU) !
> You must move the content of the /home directory, which contains the
> data of ALL users, not just your personal folder.
> /home contains the data of all users, this is what the system mounts.
>
> In a terminal, type "ls -l /home ", and post it here, I doubt you will
> have many files in there. On my machine all I have is:
>
> /home/vincent
> /home/lost+found
> /home/.Trash-root
>
>
>
> This is what you must copy to your new partition.
>
>
>
> --
> Vince

Yes, you are right... I am wrong. :-)

I understand... thanks again for the detailed help.

-Steve.
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