How to replace /home directory?
joe at actionline.com
joe at actionline.com
Wed Jan 9 14:02:53 MST 2013
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 at 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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