I want to create a dedicated partition to hold my mail, because I often banjax my home partition and can only get linux going again by completely reinstalling. (I am a noob.)

The next time i install fedora i know what i want to do.

During installation i will format some space on my hdd with the intention of creating a partition on it after the set up has been completed. (I am not good enough to grant permissions during installation. Is this easy? If i dont get the permissions sorted i dont have a gui. And then i am usesless.)

So, once i get Fedora installed i get qparted going and spot the formatted space and then create a partition there...? And I mount it onto /home/yeehi...? Is that right? What do i call it / label it? /home/yeehi/mail ? Because that file directory is already there ready to hold my kmail stuff.

And how do i grant myself permission to access that partition when i dont log in as root.

I hope somebody can help as this is a long time problem i have had. If I can get *this * one sorted...

ppps

finally, and i haven't tried it yet maybe i just have to grant myself permissions using the followiong, will it work, what do you think?

chmod 700 /home/yeehi

ps
It's not generally considered good practice to partition at the level you have - most partitions are typically mounted at the first directory level - e.g. /home, /usr. It can get potentially confusing by using sub-mounts.

Also I have not given yeehi permissions to use /home/yeehi/mail and or all sub folders.




pps

The partitioning might be a red herring. I would have *the same problem* if i instead tried to keep all my e mail on a dedicated hard disk. Why wouldn't the fedora core 2 installation let me log in after i gave my hard disk the name /home/yeehi/mail ?