-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for all your answers. I tested the no-symlinks-are-used option, by merely mounting my new HDD into /home/merciadriluca/. It worked, but not as much as I wanted. After being logged, my /home/merciadriluca/'s content was the content of the new HDD, but I was really deceived to lose all my preferences, /i.e./ wallpaper, menus, shortcuts, applets (I mean `panel apps'), etc.
I then re-switched back to my old folder/directory, that I had carefully renamed, i.e. # mv merciadriluca merciadriluca.bak before any attempt. After some adventures, I am back, actually safe and sound, but at the same state as before. There is something that I do not understand at all. Why are all my shortcuts, prefs., etc., okay now, after having re-switched back to my /home/merciadriluca/, when /home/merciadriluca/ was actually exactly the content of /dev/sdc5 (which was mounted in /home/merciadriluca/, as explained before), where /dev/sdc5 has the same content as /home/merciadriluca/? Hope it is clear. If not so, please tell me about it. I am not really a professionnal with symlinks, but why can't I cd to the symlink created as above? I am in /home/, with su rights. I then # mkdir test # ls -l /dev/sdc5 test And then, # cd test gives me something like `test is not a directory.' (I had tested this before messing (and playing) around with the other proposal). Any idea? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAks1JngACgkQM0LLzLt8Mhw3gQCfRsaKZ/Jt2Dto2MFU64YAMS8L 8fYAnRA29x13K6uy6h8CoFtsFgkQwQdy =JkHc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
