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sorry if I'm repeating anything I dropping in from 10000ft. checking you have understood: a) the drive partition is what you need to mount not the drive i.e. /dev/disk0 is not the same as /dev/disk0s1 //this is an example b) media/Movies/home isn't a valid absolute path. its a relative, when you mount it needs to be absolute i.e /media/movies c) don't mount /home on /media/Movies/home and not sensible for a multitude of reasons d) try not to mount thing drives in some arbitrary sub directory … it will lead to grief i.e. mount not found or worst. e) you can't mount a partition twice or amount point twice. f) permanent mount points should be from / g) temp mount points can be some where like /media/myusb or /Volumn/myportabledrive h) the unix help command explains the little things : so man fstab or man mount , or man -k mount will l;ear to useful info i) the linux documentation project explains big picture things Wisdom / not instruction: don't try to mount the disk on some sub directory of say /home/Movies/MyCrazyBigDiskMountPoint… keep the mount point high in the food chain and use a link if you need some paths to stay consistent traversal. The basic action to do this would be: turn off dropbox unmount the current /home mount the new disk partitions as /home and /Dropbox? mount the old disk partition as /oldhome move files around to the new locations check permissions and users edit stab for the new location -- removing the old mappings edit the dropbox config or use a link. and reboot. //Drop box won't resync -it's savvy and understands you might have over the /dropbox root folder. // mount can be done using the mount command -- only set stab once you are happy with the layouts. // did you partition and format the new big disk? cfdisk /dev/disk0 and mkext4 etc. On 6 Oct 2014, at 09:57, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > On 5 Oct 2014, at 13:00, Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 09:09:53 +0100 >> Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello Richard, >> >>> How can I move my user data from /home to /media/Movies/home? I have >>> tried to edit fstab and mount the Movies/home but it has an error >>> saying that it is not mountable. >> >> I'm not sure whether you've already created /media/Movies/home, but >> unless the directory already exists trying to mount anything there >> will fail. >> > > Just to let you into the steps I'm taking. > 1. On the drive media/Movies I have created /home and also /Dropbox > 2. Editing fstab and putting the UUID, followed by media/Movies/home ext3 defaults > 0 2 > 3. Save and exit and then run sudo mount -a > 4. Error message is mount: mount point media/Movies does not exist and mount point > media/Movies/home does not exist. > > Any ideas please? > > Just another thought. I want Dropbox to basically use the 1TB drive. Would it be > possible to put in a symlink and get Dropbox to use that way please? > > Kind regards > > Richard Brown > 07834 770027 > Community Organiser > http://bodmincommunity.co.uk/ > > > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq