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Just installed a ssd drive with 16.04 how can i point Ubuntu to the old drive for home folder with all my files?

Kelly Kathrens
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  • Domt want to move home just want ubuntu to use old home as default on second drive – Kelly Kathrens May 14 '16 at 15:41
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    You can mount your old drive as /home (eg: sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home) and to make it persistent add the uuid to /etc/fstab as described there – Ron May 14 '16 at 15:45
  • I think i see what you mean, would you have time to give more detailed instructions? would very much be in your debit ! – Kelly Kathrens May 14 '16 at 15:50

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First use lsblk to find the device id of your old drive. It sill be something like sdb or sda. Now mount it at /home for eg:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home

Now using sudo blkid, note the uuid of your old drive (UUID will be a very long string such as an0246cg-2kb2-6e8f-ae26-2355691e325b)

Open /etc/fstab in your favorite editor, for eg: sudo nano /etc/fstab and add the following at the end.

UUID=<noted number from above>    /home    ext4    defaults   0  2

Make sure to edit, if necessary, the ext4 to match the file system in your old drive.

Ron
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  • I have sdb1 for root "/" and sdb2 for "/home" I need to mount "/home" from sdb2 to sdb1 I use your instructions and restart. After it I can't log in to my adccount pasword didn't work. Sweet windows in ubuntu every time I must whole system reinstaling over again and agein :( – pa4k Aug 15 '17 at 22:17
  • But I need only one thing: downsize partition I used GParted but it didn't work, at first I must delete last "SWAP" partition after that I can resizing partition before it, which was mounted as "/home" but I able resize only up not down (I need to make partition smaller not biger) – pa4k Aug 16 '17 at 07:29