Preserving /Home Partition

[Nils Kassube]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> I just finished reinstalling Hardy, up to date, on an IBM 13 G
> drive that had the / Partition corrupted by fsck. Went to some
> length to prove the drive was not faulty and the drive has worked
> for several days since the reinstall. In doing so, I used the Alt.
> CD, reformatting the / part and preserving the /Home partition and
> also reformatting swap. Have done this on this same machine on a
> replacement HDD successfully but this time I find /home in my / part on
> the IBM drive. Is there a way to change things so that the original
> preserved /home partition on the IBM HDD will be used instead of the
> one in / part?

You can mount the preserved /home partition at /home of the new HD. Then
you can't access the files in the new /home any longer but I suppose that
is no real problem.


Nils