[ubuntu-za] Home directory

[Bill Cairns]

I must have written this while half asleep!

What I should have written is that I mucked up my partitions - my Home
directory is on a different partition, but the installer created a new
one on my Root partition.

I hope that is a bit crearer!

Bill

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:08 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