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I looked at this and that then attempted to move /home to a (pre-existing) partition. Now I am unable to log into it.

I tried to use chown in recovery mode as per the psychocats tutorial, only to be told that /home/username doesn't exist. But when I run 'locate username', it's the first directory listed.

What did I miss?

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  • paste the output of mount or findmnt. You should probably look into the answer here and review what you have done: askubuntu.com/questions/217397/…
    – Terry Wang
    Dec 16, 2013 at 22:37
  • The partition wasn't mounting. I hadn't created a user directory, I had just dumped everything into /home
    – user222824
    Dec 16, 2013 at 23:21
  • locate consults a database that is only rebuilt once in a while, so it can be out of date.
    – psusi
    Dec 16, 2013 at 23:35

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First run ubuntu on normal mode, after press ctrl + alt + f1 and then login with your user name and password, now write sudo chmod 777 -R /home/Your_user_folder

If not posible, put the terminal answer here.

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  • If chown does not work, I doubt that this will...
    – Wilf
    Dec 16, 2013 at 22:53
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    I hadn't created the user_folder, I had just copied everything to /home. mkdir and mv have sorted everything, thank you. Well, almost everything, I still have to figure out how to get my configs for Cinnamon and Firefox back
    – user222824
    Dec 16, 2013 at 23:25
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I suspect that the fstab file system table is still pointing at your old home partition or directory. Can you print or output the contents of /etc/fstab

You will likely need to change the entry for mounting /home

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  • Thanks. fstab was okay, I just needed the user directory in /home.
    – user222824
    Dec 17, 2013 at 0:05

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