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All of the questions I've looked at in respect of this issue relate to moving an existing home to another partition and I don't want to do that. I had to reload Ubuntu 18.04.1 on my machine and thankfully it loaded Ubuntu into sda/dev8, whilst leaving all my data where it was on dev/sda10. The sda10 data was produced whilst running 16.4.04 (and previous versions).

What I now want to do is configure my system so that it uses and mounts dev/sda10 as home. I want to delete the home directories on dev/sda8. I do have backup copies of my data, but don't want to have to restore and setup the different programs I run, unless absolutely necessary.

Can someone please help explain how to do this?

tomfilery
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  • What is "sda/dev10"? I never saw that notation before and what filessystem does sda/dev10 have? Next to that: see /etc/fstab. That's where alle the disks are mounted and you will find a /home there if it is a different partition. You can switch the UUID to "sda/dev10" there. You can not however set TWO partitions that both have /home as a root directory. – Rinzwind Aug 13 '18 at 13:52
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    Does How to re-mount a different partition as /home? answer your questions? – steeldriver Aug 13 '18 at 13:58
  • @Rinzwind - sorry, got my sda and dev mixed up - have corrected original post. sd10 is ext4 format. Will look at fstab. I definitely don't want two partitions as home. – tomfilery Aug 13 '18 at 15:20
  • @steeldriver - Many thanks. I'd started reading the detailed instructions the post linked to, but dismissed them as they dealt with creating a new partition and copying existing home directories to it - which I don't want to do. Also there was some debate about how correct some of the posts were. I'll look further into it and give it a go. Cheers. – tomfilery Aug 13 '18 at 15:23

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As steeldriver said, the answer lay in the post he/she referred to. All I had to do was edit the fstab file, as per the instructions. Home now points to my sda10 partition.

tomfilery
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