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Nathan J.B.
Asked: 2012-04-16 20:27:00 +0800 CST

Move the home directory back to single partition

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I've seen a ton of tutorials on how to move your home directory to a separate partition.

I want to do the opposite.

I have two HDDs. One /home/ and the other is everything else (both drives have only one partition). I want to use one of the hard drives for another project. So, I'd like to move the home directory and system files back onto a single drive.

Thank you!

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  1. Best Answer

    Well, moving stuff back is even easier... log into recovery mode (so you're root and /home is not used by anything), unmount home:

    umount /home

    If you want to copy data from the old home directories, mount the partition somewhere else:

    mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk

    then copy the data and it's done. To make changes permanent - edit etc/fstab to remove the line which mounts home.

    HOWEVER: If you're selling the computer, it's highly recommended to perform a clean install... maybe with a low-level disk erasing before installing. Which would render your problem unimportant, isn't it?

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