[plug] Changing the mount point of /home

[caston at arach.net.au]

Quoting John Godfrey Foster <johnfoster at aapt.net.au>:

> My Suse linux 10 mounted 	/home 	as a locked folder on the same partition as
> 
> the system (hda8). This partition is now some 75% full.
> 
> I have a 6GB partition (hda6) which is not used. Suse recognises this 
> partition under path-folder 	/data1; and 
> also on the desktop under  icon My Computer then media/hda6
> 
> How do I change the mount point of /home to hda6 so that this change is 
> recognised by the system and given that its present folder at  hda8 is shown
> 
> as locked.
> 
> John

I tend to select the largest folders (.xMule ahem...) and move them to the other
volume and create a symbolic link in the home directory to the new folder
location. ln -s source target 

regards,

Chris