using previous home directory

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 19:29:15 +0530, subhodip biswas wrote:

> hi !
> 
> I was facing problems with kde4 so installed F9 again . In my F8
> machine I had a separate /home partition conating data . Is there a
> way to use it as /home for my new machine .
> 
> 
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda9             102G  8.7G   88G  10% /                    ---->
> new /home partion is in this
> /dev/sda8             145M   25M  113M  18% /boot
> tmpfs                 755M  1.6M  754M   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda6              76G   28G   45G  38% /media/-home
> --------> old home parition
> /dev/sda5              30G   11G   19G  38% /media/New Volume

Sure. You could have added it as /home during the F9 installation
already.

Now you need to edit /etc/fstab, specify that /dev/sda6 is to be
mounted on /home, then mount it manually (or reboot). That is best
done in run-level 1 (or when nothing uses /home).

Don't forget to save/move/delete any files in /home on /dev/sda9,
because once /dev/sda6 is mounted on /home, you could no longer
access them without unmounting /home first. :)

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