Re: [tlug] SUSE wipeout! (Add /home partition in Ubuntu)

[Romeo Theriault <romeo.theriault@example.com>]

2011/6/17 Raedwolf Summoner <rarooam@example.com>

I neglected to create a separate /home partition as I
have always done before and don't really want to
reinstall to do it. (I had one until openSUSE wiped out
all my data and partitioning setup.) I have an empty
partition on sda7 that I'd like to mount as /home. I
really thought I had done this during the install, but
it isn't mounted.

I've been looking on the net and am very confused
about what I can and can't do here. How do I make
it become my /home partition instead of the /home in
the root partition? I can mount it with no problem,
but what I really want to do is make it recognized as
/home. Is that simple or something that if I screw up
the line in /etc/fstab will it keep me from being
able to log in? Would it be simpler to reinstall?

You should simple be able to mount /dev/sda7 somewhere temporary, then rsync over your /home directory from the root partition into the sda7 filesystem. Then set it up in the fstab file like you mentioned. You shouldn't even need to reboot into it if you don't have any processes running under /home. If it causes some kind of problem, just boot into single-user mode and fix it up. I may be missing a step but this is a pretty straight forward procedure. 

Romeo