Moving Directories To Hdd, help needed, how to move home to hdd? Options

[qaz]

Hello, I am playing with amazing pdaxii3 and I have a little problem.
I want to move /home/root to microdrive.
I moved /home/root to /extra/home/root and added line to fstab:
/extra/home/root /home/root auto bind
Directory seems to mount fine, but instead openbox I am greeted by bare X desktop with couple of xterms.
Did anybody tried to similar thing? I would like to move few directories to hdd (var, home etc.)
Thanks

[daniel3000]

Did you move really everything to the new location?
Maybe, if you just copied and then deleted, you missed the hidden files (.*).
Check if ~/.xinitrc exists. If this is missing, X cannot start.



I have moved the entire home directory to the MD and then linked it back instead of mount -bind it back. That works perfectly, but has the disadvantact that eps. the QT file dialogs resolve the links and instead show their real directory names. That means, if I save a file to /home/root/Documents/test, the dialog shows me /mnt/ide3/homeroot/Documents/test instead. Not a prolbem, but a bit annoying.
I think with mount -bind this does not happen.
But maybe linking can help in your case.

daniel