how do i delete my home on root partition?

[Sushil Mantri]

Ofcourse i couldn't delete my home directly, it would have deleted my
new partition. I changed my fstab to remove the new partition as home,
and rebooted. So i was back with a home on my root partition. I tried
what Ric suggested ;) . My /opt didnot have any data. I moved my home
to opt
mv /home /opt
I wasn't sure it would let me move my home folder but it does. so my
home was in /opt/sushil . I then deleted this folder. Added the entry
back in fstab

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 16/12/11 14:13, Rashkae wrote:
>>
>> On 12/15/2011 09:28 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/15/2011 06:16 PM, Rashkae wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12/15/2011 05:29 PM, Sushil Mantri wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using a new disk for my home, but i am not able to reclaim the
>>>>> space my old home has on the root partition.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Sushil
>>>>>
>>>> I'm just another random stranger on the Internets, but first thing to
>>>> say, completely ignore the previous two replies to this query.  (What
>>>> are people smoking?)
>>>>
>>>> The easiest way to do this will be to boot from a Live CD (the Ubuntu
>>>> Desktop install cd should work fine), use the file manager to find and
>>>> open your root partition and delete the contents of home from here.
>>>> (Don't delete the home folder itself,  you still need the /home on the
>>>> root partition as a mount point.)
>>>
>>> Which is exactly what this does without booting to a liveCD:
>>> $ sudo rm -R /home/<oldhome>
>>>
>>
>> Somehow, we are reading the question very differently.
>>
>> To me, it sounds like he added a new disk or partition to his system and
>> is now mounting that as /home, wheras it used to be on his root partition.
>>  He won't be able to delete the old home (and free up the disk space) until
>> /home is unmounted.
>
>
> <SIGH :-( >  Kids.....
>
> I provided the answer. Why not use it and save all the crap?
>
>
> BC
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