problem moving a user's home directory to new location

[Jay Ridgley]

Folks,

I am attempting to move a user's home directory from /home to /home2. I 
copied all files (?) from /home/user to /home2/user. Changed /etc/passwd 
for user to point to /home2/user.

I tested the setup by opening a terminal and doing an su user & was 
prompted for the password for user and logged on, no problems. The pwd 
command did indeed show the correct new directory (/home2/user)

Rebooted my system and logged in as user with the GUI, All ok except I 
was still pointing to /home/user NOT /home2/user!

What did I do wrong????

Did the command sudo  cp -a /home/user /home2/user not work correctly? 
NOTE: user did not exist in /home2 initially.

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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Registered Linux User ID - 9115

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