Preserving /Home Partition

[Nils Kassube]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Can I recover the /home dir in the 
> / partition if I now unmount the /dev/sdb3 /home partition?  Only one
> q-mark-:)  Just curious as the /home partition is working ok but wonder
> if one in / is gone forever.

Yes, if you unmount the /home partition you can access the /home directory 
of the original installation. Mounting some partition to a mount point 
just hides everything which was previously available at that mount point 
and only for the time it is mounted there. It doesn't delete anything.


Nils