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Hi Brad On 6 Oct 2014, at 12:45, Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 12:02:01 +0100 > Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Richard, > >> Having changed that setting I thought that would then allow me to use >> that directory as my home folder but it isn't. The original idea is so >> that I could use the big disk for my home folder but Dropbox still >> won't let me use it. Any ideas please? > > Your line looks like this, I believe; > > UUID=blah /media/Movies/home ext3 defaults 0 2 > > Which mounts disk at that directory. If you want to use the disk > as /home you do > > UUID=blah /home ext3 defaults 0 2 > > Be warned though, it'll mask (but not delete) anything previously > mounted at that point. This probably isn't desirable. > > However, if you want to simply change your user's home directory, fstab > isn't the place to do that. That's done using whatever program you use > to manage your users. Alternatively, from the command line; > > # usermod -m -d /path/to/new/home/dir userNameHere > > -m means move everything from their current home directory to the new > one. > -d specifies the path to their new home directory. > > The new directory will be created if it doesn't already exit. > Thanks for the reply. I am assuming that if I move my home directory to a new disk Dropbox will use that disk as well. As I am the only user would it matter if I did the first rather than the latter. I believe it is basically what I want. I am presuming it is possible to undo? If it is not desirable is it simply because it will hide what was already there please? Thanks for the help by the way. Rich -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq