[PLUG] /home lost

[Rogan Creswick]

On Feb 6, 2008 7:47 PM, Brian Derr <bderrly at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I understand correctly then you have/had a /home partition running under
> Ubuntu. You installed Kubuntu on a separate partition using the pre-existing
> /home. Upon booting the previously installed Ubuntu you don't have access to
> your /home? That sounds odd. Kubuntu and Ubuntu should have no problems
> sharing a /home as long as they both have the same UIDs for the users. Did
> you check the /etc/fstab under both?

The output of "mount" run on both installs would help a lot.

--Rogan



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> bd
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> On Feb 6, 2008 4:56 PM, Bruce KIlpatrick <bakilpatrick at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I have a laptop that has been running Ubuntu Gutsy without problem for a
> > while.  I wanted to play in KDE and installed the desktop.   It made a
> > mess of my menus (editable I realize) and Kstars did not run stable.  So
> > I uninstalled the KDE desktop and installed the few programs that I
> > wanted, allowing apt to install the dependencies.
> >
> > So, the other night I got a wild hair and installed Kubuntu on another
> > partition.  The install went well and it updated.  I then rebooted the
> > computer back to Ubuntu and it won't load telling me that /home is not
> > to be found.  Kubuntu is using it, so I know it physically exists.
> > Ubuntu just can't see it now.
> >
> > My assumption was that since it is a separate partition, they would
> > share.  My bad (?)
> >
> > Can someone please explain what happened, is what I am trying to do
> > possible, and how do I fix Ubuntu so that it sees my home partition.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Bruce
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