Debian Unstable vs. Ubuntu

[Wouter Eerdekens]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:52:49 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com
<rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have a seperate partition with /home on it then you can tell
> ubuntu not to touch it while installing. Then after installing you can
> modify your /etc/fstab to mount /home on that partition, rename the
> /home directory (/home_original), and reboot.

There's no need to reboot. After editing /etc/fstab run the command

mount -a

or

mount /home

Cheers,
Wouter

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