On Thursday 21 December 2006 14:03, HG wrote:
2) If it is its own partition, why are you using the Partitioner? Unless you want to create a new and bigger partition and eventually get rid of the current /home.
Why am I using Partitioner? Hmmm... I'm trying to do something with the partitions - isn't that what the Partitioner is designed to do? To be honest YaST has many great things (and other not too hot) and that is about the only thing that sets SUSE apart from the other distros. All of them have command line, but there is a new generation of us linux users. I'm in the between: I'm comfortable at the command prompt, but I do not know my way around there that much. Partitioner is simple and easy to find. Why not use it?
But again, you didn't say what you were trying to make the partitioner do... The partitioner is to create/delete/resize partitions, none of which you have said you are doing... (yet) If you are not CHANGING your partition, all you really are doing is changing the mount point for a current partition. That doesn't require the partitioner.
3) If (2) is not the case, then all you need to do is to umount /home from its current mount point and remount it at /local/home which would require either Yast or Partitioner and should take about 10 seconds.
I tried to remove the mount point in Partitioner. That fails with the same error message. Anybody know what that means?
I've never used the partitioner (and will refuse to do so because I don't really trust it) but I can't believe the partitioner is to be used to change mount points. It might be something that it will do, but it's not what its real purpose is.
4) If (2) is correct, then I myself still wouldn't use Yast to do any of this but some people would. I would create the new partition. mount it at /local/home and rsync or cp the files from /home over to it.
I'm trying to move the mount point from /home to /local/home as I want to import another home by NFS and NIS.
From a command line, while you are not logged on as a normal user: (logout of KDE and when the login screen comes up again, do a ctl=alt-f<num> to get a console session. Login as root. umount /home mkdir /local/home mount /dev/sda3 /local/home Tough, wasn't it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org