[ubuntu-za] Home Directory on Wrong Partition

[Wesley Werner]

Hello Bill. All you have to do is add a line in etc/fstab that points the
partition to the home mount point. Reboot and you are golden.
On Apr 25, 2014 5:11 PM, "Bill Cairns" <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just installed 14.04 over 13.10. (At the same time I went from 32
> bit to 64 bit).
>
> I obviously forgot to tell gparted that I wanted to keep my home directory
> on its own partition because an empty "Home" is now sharing the very small
> partition with the OS.
>
> I have done some research and it seems that the easiest thing to do is to
> tell the system to use the old "Home" on its separate partition as the
> user's Home. So I installed gnome-system-tools and ran users-admin (why
> isn't that all that stuff standard like it used to be?) and got as far as
> filling in the new Home directory. But then I was stymied.
>
> How do I point to the Home directory on the other partition? Nautilis has
> it as "160 GB Volume". It is not in fstab. So what do I put in? It has
> occurred to me to put in an fstab entry, but would that do the job?
>
> I would appreciate any advice,
>    Bill
>
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