[ubuntu-za] Home directory

[Wesley Werner]

Hi Bill.

What you need to do, is edit /etc/fstab. That file controls what partitions
your system mounts during boot.

Look for the line the points to your /home and replace the mount point to
the /dev/sdbX location. Before that though, just confirm the partition of
your old home with fdisk -l. Mount it manually to look at it's contents if
you are unsure.

Also, if you dont see any existing fstab entry for home, it means you will
just have to add it.

I recommend you to 'man fstab' or google what the file does, just to
familiarize yourself.
On Jan 18, 2013 8:09 PM, "Bill Cairns" <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> So.
>
> I finally decided that my problems with my 12.10 machine were probably
> caused by a bad install and so I decided to re-install
>
> One of the options on the re-install is to simply re-install. So I did
> that and the system ended up worse than before. Not only did it
> immediately blow with a Combiz error, but it so slow that the mouse
> was barely usable. So I decided on
>
> The next option which is to completely reinstall. Warning - I was
> going to lose all my files.  OK - I have a good backup so off I went.
> It took a long time (it seemed to sit on "Reinstalling old
> applications" for yonks. Heck - I didn't even want it to re-install
> old applications). But eventually
>
> I have a good 12.10 installation. At least I have not had a Compiz
> error and the mouse is great. But now I find
>
> I made a silly error during the re-installation and did not tell the
> sector manager that my Home directory was already on sector DB6 (or
> something). So it created me a new Home directory on the Root sector..
>
> How (without re-installing please!) can I tell it that actually my
> Home directory is on a different sector?
>
> Bill
>
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