On Friday 25 December 2009 11:49 am, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > After some data manipulation, I now have a free ext3 disk. My aim is > to put the entire content of my /home/merciadriluca/ in it, at the > place of on the HDD where /etc/, /sys/, and other stuff resides. > > The problem is that I have a lot of apps and scripts for which I have set > the home folder to /home/merciadriluca/. > > As I want the transition to be as smooth as possible, the best thing > to do would be --at least to me-- to play around with symlinks. My > first idea was to create a symlink `merciadriluca' in /home/. This > symlink would be pointing to my new drive. The problem is that, on the > one hand, the name of this symlink needs to be the same as > `merciadriluca' (so that I do not need to modify all my scripts, > etc.); on the other hand, my session's name still needs to be > `merciadriluca' so that I do not need another account. That is, I am > thus obliged to create two files with the same name, /i.e./ > `merciadriluca', in /home/. Doing this is however avoided. > > Does somebody have any suggestion about how to cope with this, by > doing as little modifications as possible (I have lots of scripts > everywhere, things in /etc/init.d which launch /home/... things, etc., > backup tools, etc.)? >
Sorry if I don't see a problem. 1. Copy the contents of /home/merciadriluca to your newly cleared out disk. 2. Rename /home/merciadriluca to something like /home/merci.bak just to be on the safe side. 3. Create the link in the /home directory to the data on your new disk. 4. Done. You have exactly what you want. What am I missing that you are seeing? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
