Am Fre, 2003-11-28 um 22.43 schrieb Alexis Vasquez: Hi Alexis > I posted this 'coz I think this could be easier. ... "easier than reading the manual" or "easier than restoring your data after messing up everything with desktop-tool-experiments"? :o) > I have a '/home' filesystem on /dev/hda## I woud like > to be '/home5'. open a terminal, make your self root and just "move" it: su - mv /home /home5 if you want to move directories "in" your /home/ dir, you don't need to be root, but on rh the /home/ dir is owned by UID/GID root/root > how could this be done without compromising the data > it contains??.. I don't think you are compromising the data with "mv" unless you don't move it to /dev/null :o) > thanks in advance... Just a friendly advice: You should consider to leave the GUI-Tools alone and get deeper into the unix-terminal. ...the shell rules!!! sandro -- Sandro Wabner - sandro@xxxxxxxxx - http://sandro.wabner.de/ Tel: 00 49 5271 49337 - Fax: 00 49 5271 496663 Rosenstr. 19 - 37671 Höxter PGP public key: http://sandro.wabner.de/keys/key_swabner.gpg -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list