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file systems



> I have a user who has filled up their home directory.
> How can I change the location of this to another disk?

Move the directory to another partition with more space.  The create a
link from /home to where they ended up.

mv /home/username /otherplace
cd /home
ln -s /otherplace/username username

Looks good I hope?

Brian Conway
dogbert at clue4all.net


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