[ubuntu-za] Home directory

[Frans de waal]

On Jan 19, 2013 6:41 AM, "Bill Cairns" <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
You still need to edit /etc/fstab and add the home partition... if you want
you can look for a utility to help, but your best option would be to google
"adding partitions to fstab". There are two formats for inserting the
partition,  adding it as /dev/sd? Is easy and straight forward... though
adding it ussing the device id is more reliable when you add another hdd to
the system.
HTH
Frans de Waal

> > 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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