How to replace /home directory?

[joe at actionline.com]

> 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.



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> On Jan 9, 2013 2:02 PM, <joe at 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 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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