<div>On 8/23/05, Michael Beattie <<a href="mailto:mtbeedee@gmail.com">mtbeedee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> you might want to use like rm -rf /home/*</blockquote><div>or mv /home /old_home Just in case. ;) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">mount /dev/hdb7 /home something like that. Just be REALLY CAREFUL with the rm's and make sure you have backups. On 8/22/05, Martin Ericsson <<a href="mailto:i00marer@island.liu.se">i00marer@island.liu.se</a>> wrote: > > Hi! > So far I have had my home folder on the root partition, but now I have > created a new ext3 onto which I wish to move the home folder. > > I tried to simply copy the files from my old home folder to the new > folder with nautilus but I got an error message for some mozilla-file. > Is there a some better way to do it? > > And would the following line be OK in fstab once I have copied the files? > /dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 0 1 > > Regards, > Martin Ericsson > > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, Russ