I just completed a fresh full install of 14.2. My system has 3 drives not set as raid or lvm. SDA1 is mounted as root, sdb1 is mounted at /home/pictures, and sdc1 is mounted at /home/videos. What I wish to have is /home/user/pictures on sdb1 and /home/user/videos on sdc1. I thought I could just move the folders to the correct drive, but that doesn't perform as I expected. What is the correct procedure to set this up?

Thanks for any help.

Dan

If you simply want to change the mounts to the new names you can:
1) Unmount the existing filesystems:
a) umount /home/pictures
b) umount /home/videos

2) Create directory /home/user if it doesn't already exist:
mkdir /home/user

3) Move the mount point directories under /home/user
a) mv /home/pictures /home/user/pictures
b) mv /home/videos /home/user/videos

4) Modify /etc/fstab to change the mount point for each of the filesystems to match the new names in step 3a & 3b using your favorite editor. (Assuming these were already in fstab - if not you may wish to add them so they get remounted automatically on boot.)

5) Run "mount -a" to mount all filesystems in /etc/fstab
(or alternatively mount each filesystem with full mount command specifying the device and the new mount point for each).

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That did the trick! Thank you for your help. I will mark this solved.

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Glad I could help. Thanks for marking it Solved.

I'd modify that to "so long as you can keep it doing what you acquired it to do". Out here in the professional system admin world there are way to many systems that are one failure away from becoming doorstops because no one wants to take the effort to migrate to systems for which parts are still available.