how to change home on the / partition to a /home partition

Bob ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net
Sun Mar 4 00:56:02 UTC 2018


** Reply to message from Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> on Sat,  3 Mar
2018 18:20:26 -0500 (EST)

> You need to edit /etc/fstab and add the mount info.
> 
> man fstab

Thanks I got it changed

One strange thing is that using blkid my laptop works differently than my
desktop.  My laptop reguires I us sudo but the desktop does not.


> At Sat, 3 Mar 2018 15:09:54 -0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for
> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I messed up my / partition so I installed UBUNTU again.  Being fairly new to
> > linux I had assumed it would use the existing /home partition when the install
> > was completed.  That did not happen and now I want to change it.  So what do I
> > need to do to change the use of /home on the / to use /home in another
> > patition?

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Robert Blair


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