[NTLUG:Discuss] Moving /home

Kathleen Weaver kathleen at metronet.com
Tue Sep 7 18:02:33 CDT 1999


>> I'm out of ideas.  I'd like the directories to be /home/<username>
>
>samentics
>
>cd /home
>mv * /newhome
>
>or you can use copy if you are worried...
>
>cd /home
>cp -aR /newhome
>
>The R is recursive and the a keeps the origional attributes.   
>then once you are sure it worked, go back and delete the old ones. (I
>like the 'cya' method).

I was able to get to /newhome no problem, but when I set up the new mount
point, everything ended up as /home/home/<username> rather than
/home/<username>  
kathleen
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