> Well you could just mount the home partition in the > home directory and call it a day. Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know how to do that, especially since the home directory now resides in the root partition. I tried to mount /dev/sda7 as /home but that did not work. Not sure what the syntax should be. ---------------- > On Jan 9, 2013 2:02 PM, wrote: > >> Just installed kubuntu 12.10 (root partition only) to replace 12.04 on >> one >> of my computers, and made sure to preserve (not write over) the >> pre-existing /home partition. But now I have a new /home directory >> inside >> the root (/) directory, and the original /home directory is not mounted. >> fdisk -l shows this: >> >> Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders, total 195371568 sectors >> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> Disk identifier: 0x282d282d >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sda2 206848 61794303 30793728 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sda3 61796350 195371007 66787329 5 Extended >> /dev/sda5 61796352 67848191 3025920 82 Linux swap / >> Solaris >> /dev/sda6 67850240 87379967 9764864 83 Linux >> /dev/sda7 87382016 195371007 53994496 83 Linux >> >> So, what is the best procedure to replace the newly created /home >> directory and replace it with the previous (original) /home directory? >> Both are ext4 and both have the same owner and group names. >> >> Can I just add /dev/sda7 (the previous /home) to /etc/fstab (contents >> shown below) and will doing that delete/replace the new /home directory? >> Or are additional steps needed? >> >> joe@T60: cat /etc/fstab >> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. >> # / was on /dev/sda6 during installation >> UUID=864ca0e6-f82c-4394-b497-012083b40115 / ext4 >> errors=remount-ro >> 0 1 >> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation >> UUID=dc56632c-3c80-4f8e-87e1-2a1d65ddc281 none swap sw >> 0 0 >> >> FWIW, 'df' currently shows this: >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda6 9611492 3895244 5228008 43% / >> udev 1540144 4 1540140 1% /dev >> tmpfs 620500 820 619680 1% /run >> none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock >> none 1551244 80 1551164 1% /run/shm >> none 102400 8 102392 1% /run/user >> >> Also, what is the procedure to mount /dev/sda2 (the windows7 partition) >> so >> I can access certain files on that partition. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss