7 Jun
2004
7 Jun
'04
22:33
... took quite a while to chown my home partition - 40gb 5400rpm with 512kb cache drive. Lots of small files (text documents mostly). Painfull...
I did an install-from-scratch of 9.1, but did NOT format the partition on which I had /home from a previous SuSE version. I defined users for the new system with YaST2 (edit users and groups function). By clicking on the user entry panel's 'Details' button, I was presented with another panel, one of whose fields had the user-id defaulted as '1000'. I simply overtyped that (for the first user) with '500'. Now YaST2 went on to set up that 9.1 user with his numeric userid matching the file-ownership userid on the existing partition. [When defining the second user I typed in '501', etc.] mikus