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Fresh install of 13.10, put "swap" and "/home" on 80G hdd and then "/" on a 32G ssd. Everything works fine BUT when I examine the drives they both have a "home" directory with a "mike" (that's me) sub directory.

This seems like a rather silly thing for the Ubuntu installer to do since I made a point of installing /home first, where I wanted it.

My question now is, which is the real /home and how do I insure the "mike" files go only on the hdd as I intended? Should I delete the /home on the ssd?

EDIT: Thank you responders. I see now that when I did Search->Disks->Devices and looked at each drive I should have also checked "Properties" and then I would have seen the /home folder on the ssd was twice the size of the ssd and therefore it must represent a link to the /home file on the hdd.

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    how did you check? can you add the output of df -h editing your question.
    – sourav c.
    Dec 22, 2013 at 4:20

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They both are the "real" /home. If you create a file in your home directory on one it should appear in the other. The reason you see both is because the /home folder on the 80GB HDD is mounted on the root partition as /home

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Unlike Windows, Ubuntu mounts partitions as folders or sub-folders. When you created /home partition, it created a folder home under / and linked (or mounted) it to the partition in the 80 GB drive.

To verify that your home folder inside the 32GB SSD / is the actually the partition in the 80GB HDD, just open the Home in Files (also known as Nautilus) and right click on any empty space and select Properties. You should see more than 32GB of Space in your Home. You can also use Disk Usage Analyzer program to see how the partitions are being used.

Hope this helps

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