[plug] Changing the mount point of /home

[Jim Householder]

John Godfrey Foster wrote:
> 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.
> 
I would most likely use a live distro to guarantee no open files in 
/home.  Copy to the new partition, and *rename*, not delete, /home for 
backup.  Create a new /home, change fstab, and reboot.

Jim