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[Dave Miller]

I am a complete newbie and am in no position to edit this page.  I just 
followed it and was successful, but I ran into a couple of snags that 
the author should be made aware of.  Please forward this message to 
him/her for consideration.

First glitch:  after creating the partitions, I could not find the UUID 
using *blkid*.  /dev/sda8 (my new partition) was not listed.  I was able 
to find it from the GUI going Places/Disk (can't remember exactly what 
it was called) then when mounted, right click the desktop icon, click 
Properties, Values.  There sat the UUID.  Unfortunately you can't 
highlight and copy from that window, I had to write down that string and 
key it in when I added the line to the fstab file.

Second glitch -- the biggie -- came a bit later.  After copying /home to 
the new partition, I renamed /home, but then (yikes!) I was unable to 
edit /etc/fstab using either *gksu gedit /etc/fstab* or *sudo gedit 
/etc/fstab*.  Both commands returned error messages -- sorry, I didn't 
write them down, but at this point I was in a bit of a panic.  The long 
and the short is that gedit would not launch.  Also, my custom wallpaper 
disappeared, and it occurred to me that perhaps I was trying to do 
things that require the config information located in the /home 
directory.  Fortunately my terminal was still open, so I did a *sudo 
shutdown -r now* (after trying and failing without *sudo* in the line) 
and rebooted into my live CD.  There I was able, after a bit of 
exploration with Nautilus, and another failed attempt as normal user, to 
do *sudo gedit /media/disk-1/etc/fstab* and make the all important 
change to the line I had added.

After this I did a restart and let the PC boot from the hard drive.  
Ubuntu came up perfectly.  I have now satisfied myself that everything 
is normal and I have used *sudo -rf /old_home* to delete the old home 
directory.  However, there were some scary moments there.  I think the 
wiki article needs expanding, including some information about the use 
of the live disk when things go wrong and also (didn't think of this 
possibility until later of course) specific instructions on doing that 
second edit of the fstab file using nano or another terminal based text 
editor.

Hope this helps --

Dave Miller
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