Well you could just mount the home partition in the home directory and call
it a day.
On Jan 9, 2013 2:02 PM, <
joe@actionline.com> 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.
>
>
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