Move default 'home' and some opinions

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/11/5 Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com>
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> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM, cherryfinals <cherryfinals at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Gang!
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>> I just upgraded my system to 2.5Tb of drive space and 4Gb of ram. Then, I installed 9.10 from a clean CD. The good news is that everything worked great after a modicum of fiddling.
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>> The bad news is that I seem to have misplaced my directions for making another drive the default home folder. A good friend helped me set it up last year.
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> The usual way is to mount your new partion at /home.  So if your new drive is /dev/sdb and your desired partition is /dev/sdb1 you would execute
> mount /dev/sdb1 /home
> if that works, you make it happen at book by editing your /etc/fstab to make it happen at boot.
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> To be a little more modern, use either a label or UUID for the partition.  I think Kubuntu uses UUIDs so you fstab would look like:
> UUID=84a46ac2-fb27-4cc0-bb35-fcdb77e140a7 /home      ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
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> I thought I knew how to find the UUID, but it isn't working.  Someone?

blkid can be used to print UUID and Label for partitions on connected drives.

/ Jonas