how do i delete my home on root partition?

[NoOp]

On 12/15/2011 07:13 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 09:28 PM, NoOp wrote:
...
>>> 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.

Got it. Thanks.