how do i delete my home on root partition?

[Ric Moore]

On 12/15/2011 10:52 PM, Sushil Mantri wrote:
> Ofcourse i couldn't delete my home directly, it would have deleted my
> new partition. I changed my fstab to remove the new partition as home,
> and rebooted. So i was back with a home on my root partition. I tried
> what Ric suggested ;) . My /opt didnot have any data. I moved my home
> to opt
> mv /home /opt
> I wasn't sure it would let me move my home folder but it does. so my
> home was in /opt/sushil . I then deleted this folder. Added the entry
> back in fstab

...and you have your old /home partition now as /opt? Great!
As I mentioned, depending on the size of the new /opt partition, you can 
store your video and audio files there, and just make a link in your new 
home directory to point Videos, Music, Pictures to directories in /opt/ 
Next time you need to, you could wipe out /home yet still have all your 
goodies intact in /opt/ I've been doing that for eons. Enjoy! Ric


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