How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

[finny388]

It looked liked it was as easy as changing file path in About Me/Paths.

But apparently it is a known bug that these setting are not persistent on a reboot.

I have 2 harddrives, 1 for OS, 1 for files. So I want all the Home folders to point to the file harddrive.

Are these subfolders (Movies, Music, etc) built into parts of Kubuntu (the QuickAccess Browser for example) or is Home the key and whatever subfolders you put in there are used (I would add Books and TV)

Please help. I am so tired of digging thru folders when they could be accessed so readily.

Thanks,

[Guest]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

I experienced the same thing. Unfortunately my only advice is to keep trying. When mine reverted back the second or third time I just gave up. Then a week or two later I did it again (this is two or three months ago now) and it stuck. I'm afraid I have no idea why it finally "stuck", but it did. It has not changed back since.

Best

[toad]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

Lazy workaround would be to write a little script that copies, moves, links or does whatever you do manually on every boot automatically on every boot...

[finny388]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

This is such a good example of what frustrates me about k/ubuntu. I want so much to love it wholly.

I am willing to learn but are you kidding me? Is this so difficult for the developers to fix?

So much help is "how to do this", "how to work around that". Where can I read about how things work? Not how to do things, but how things work?

Dolphin errors out every time I try a file search.

Every time I reboot I lose resolution and wallpaper settings.

All of these things seem to be known bugs. So fundamental though. Arrg.

[vinnywright]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

1- you could have put /home or eney other DIR. (usr,bin,etc,watever) on the other drive at install but it would have neded a linux file system for the linux folders and it's not Kubuntu's fault you dident think of it then!

2- you can still do this but it's trickey........if you realey want to try say so.

3- it mite be esear to do system links to the drive............open dolphin and do a split window have one side on /home and the other on the drive in queshton.
pick a folder you want to acsess and drag it to home and drop it you will get a popup that asks you what you want to do click link.
now eney time you open the link frome /home it will be the other drive's folder your looking at....so if say you remove the music folder in /home and make a link to a music folder in the other drive every time you open that link in /home and put files in it it will aculey be going to the other drive.

if you want to put /home on the other drive you will nead a linux formated partition on that drive larg enuff to hold all of /home as it is now + however mutch extra you nead for storage.


I'm sorey to hear you'r having so meney problems.........I have none of the querks you discribe but that's me.......on my hardware ...and not you on your's.

VINNY

[toad]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

@ finny388

Sorry to hear about your troubles. It certainly is not normal that dolphin craps out on you like that.

Anyway, I was only trying to help, no need to blow up on it. You may appreciate that I have no idea what your level of proficiency is. If the answer does not help you, ask to get a little deeper into the subject. Ranting does not improve understanding.

If you want to read how things work I suggest you start googling ubuntu and go through the wiki. There is so much there it should keep you happy for the next couple of years

[Fintan]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

Just my 5.5 cents worth:

Vinnies solution is valid or you could have a look at these:
http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/...own-partition/


http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
instead of using a kubuntu live cd I suggest getting gparted live:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

That site also has a lot of good info on partitioning.

As mentioned above you will need enough space to make a new /home partition and then just copy the data you want over to your new /home.

Just one more thing. Don't forget to rename your old /home so your system doesn't get completely mixed up.

Good luck and enjoy

PS: I agree with toad whole heartedly. Ranting will get noone nowhere.

Every time I reboot I lose resolution and wallpaper settings.

you seem to have a borked setup in your .kde folder (hidden folder in /home)

What version of kde are you using?

[finny388]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

Thank you for the replies and sorry for the rant.

Relying solely on the kindness of strangers can be tough.

I am using Kubuntu 9.10 on an Asus eee 900. (4GB(OS) and 16GB(where I want my files) SSD) (both are formatted as ext3 and as you can see there is plenty more room on the other drive.)

So I guess the Home folder? (not sure if that is word for it in Linux) is wired into Kubuntu but not the subfolders.

That being true I'll just delete the old ones and replace them with links.

If I ever reinstall I'll look for that option but I don't remember seeing it the first two times.

One other thing please: when reading there is so much more on Ubuntu than Kubuntu. What do I have to keep in mind when reading Ubuntu info as it applies to KDE. It seems everything you touch is Gnome in Ubuntu so the "how to"s don't apply.

Thanks

[vinnywright]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

I am using Kubuntu 9.10 on an Asus eee 900. (4GB(OS) and 16GB(where I want my files) SSD) (both are formatted as ext3 and as you can see there is plenty more room on the other drive.)

well PLENTY I gess is subjektive .......I wouldent call 16 plenty ..........sufishent ya ok.

If I ever reinstall I'll look for that option but I don't remember seeing it the first two times.

that option is in the partitioning section of the install you would click the manuall button and then next and get presented with a page to do watever you want

One other thing please: when reading there is so much more on Ubuntu than Kubuntu. What do I have to keep in mind when reading Ubuntu info as it applies to KDE. It seems everything you touch is Gnome in Ubuntu so the "how to"s don't apply.

well Kubuntu IS ubuntu just with KDE as a window manager insted of gnome so info you find thar is relavent UNLESS Gnome spesifick.............when in dought.......that's what wear hear for........

and for you'r further confushon hears what my disk looks like.

vinny@desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for vinny:

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4b36bdea

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 570 4496 31543627+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1 569 4570461 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 4497 7073 20699752+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 7074 24321 138544560 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 7074 24183 137436043+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 24184 24321 1108453+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

sda1=winXP
sda2=factory rescu partition to reload a fresh XP & factorey software
sda3=/root
sda5=/home

and hear

vinny@desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 20G 6.6G 12G 36% /
udev 738M 272K 738M 1% /dev
none 738M 316K 738M 1% /dev/shm
none 738M 196K 738M 1% /var/run
none 738M 0 738M 0% /var/lock
none 738M 0 738M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5 130G 81G 43G 66% /home

VINNY

[finny388]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

Thanks Vinny. If I choose to try to change the home mounting, is the above link going to work for me or is something about this gnome specific?

thx, finny

[vinnywright]

Re: How to change Home directory and all the key sub folders as well

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

Thanks Vinny. If I choose to try to change the home mounting, is the above link going to work for me or is something about this gnome specific?

thx, finny

look's ok as long as this line is copeying the curent working directorey to /new/ and saving all premishons ...

find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd /new/

that's a new one for me

and you use a ubuntu cd

if you use you'r Kubuntu cd you will nead to install gparted as soon as you have net.
and whare it's using

gksudo gedit

you will use

kdesudo kate

that's some of the gnome spasifick stuff I was refering to

and as thay kept saying make shure you know witch /dev/sdx's you'r supoed to be using

VINNY