The home directory is the directory in which all the user's files reside. The Documents folder, Pictures, and settings reside in this directory, under /home/username on the filesystem.
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Ubuntu 11.10 Home folder places bar missing [duplicate]
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Nautilus does not show the left bar, how do I turn it back on?
Today I noticed that my "places" are missing when I open Home Folder. I should see it if I open any ...
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What are ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED files and folders for?
I've moved my home folder from an old to a new computer using this HowTo.
The old machine was running Xubuntu 11.10 the new is running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit.
On both machines the users where created ...
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Formating NTFS partition into EXT4 and setting up as home
i know that this question may be asked before, but i couldn't find it. If you find out that this is a duplicate question feel free to close it and post link to that question in answer. Thank you.
So ...
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Mount encrypted home during boot (dm-crypt, luks)
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my notebook having kept an old luks encrypted partition on my drive.
This partition shows up in the file manager an can be mounted from there into /media/[UUID].
Now I ...
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How can I recover my home folder and log in again after accidentally moving in into “lost+found”?
I use ubuntu 12.04.
I just curiously transferred 'my-username' folder into "lost+found" folder (which is normally locked), so that anyone from other user account can not access my files.
But, after ...
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How can I disable Kubuntu 12.04 home folder encryption?
I use Kubuntu 12.04. It's a relatively new install and when I created my account I had the option to have it encrypt my home folder. I chose to do that. Now I would like to turn that off. I opened ...
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Minecraft server automaticly moves to home folder
Me and my friends are having a Minecraft server on our Dropbox folder and whenever i start the sever it starts a new server and moves it into my home folder. If i already have a server in my home ...
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12.04 Upgrade deletes home files
I had Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit installed with 5 users. Home folder has its own partition. I was planning to install Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit so I booted from the live CD and was going to manually select ...
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Can't see my old /Home
i had ubuntu 12.04 installed with separeted home, i have reinstalled it due to an error of my graphic card, and i choose to format the partition with ubuntu with ext4, and for the home partition i ...
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How can I replace 12.04 dash home with that of 11.10? [closed]
As much as I like and enjoy the new Unity in 12.04 - after I'd installed WebUpd8's window dodge deb - I can't help missing the dash home in 11.10. The dash home with the slightly divisive 8 giant ...
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Migrating users from Madriva
My company switces from Madriva to ubuntu 12.04. We use an nfs mounted /home. I migrate the users by copying passwrd, shadow and group under /etc in the newly installed Ubuntu and also mount the /home ...
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Upgraded to 12.04, can't login because home directory disappeared
I have just upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04, and at my first login, I typed in my password, and then a quick console screen showed that some mountall event failed.
Indeed, I had some networked ...
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What is the difference between “Nautilus”, “Files” and “Home Folder”?
When I type "nau" in the search bar of the applications-HUD the result is a "Home Folder" folder and a "Files" folder installed but the "Files" has a Home drawing in it and is recently used, whereas ...
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My home partition slowly fills up until the system is unable to complete even simple tasks
So I have an awesome configuration on my home pc. My /home directory has its own partition.
My home partition slowly fills up until the system is unable to complete even simple tasks. For example, ...
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Windows / Ubuntu Dualboot: Pulseaudio can't start - NTFS home folder
I installed Ubuntu on my Dell 1555 Laptop and decided to make it dual boot with Windows 7. I wanted to share the home folder with the "My Documents" Folder in Windows, so i created an extra partition ...
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Problems selecting Themes Using My Unity
This question may be subjective but I am having problems selecting GTK3 Themes using My Unity.
Background
Some GTK3 Theme installation instructions ask you place the extracted theme folder in ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Home folder showing full [closed]
I received a notification today that my home folder is full. I have a 120GB SSD with 3 partitions, /, /opt, /home (84gb).
Using the disk usage analyzer, I can only determine that there is no more ...
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Upgraded from 10.10 to 12.04. How can I remove any remnants of settings of Gnome?
I formatted / but I used my old home folder. I am seeing some strange behaviours in Unity that I am guessing that may be because of configuration files from Gnome 2 (that I was using in 10.10). Could ...
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How do I rename a new album in shotwell?
I can't make or rename an album in Shotwell.Can anybody help me in renaming them?My
ubuntu version is 11.10.
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How do I move my encrypted /home to a new computer?
Hi I have a new notebook and I want to move my home data to the new computer.
I think there are multiple ways of doing this
copy all to a external hdd and move back on new computer
do an Deja-Dup ...
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Merging home directories
Here's the thing. I did a fresh install of 11.10. I created a separate partition for /home and another for /. I then installed 11.04 on the / partition. Now I still have the /home on the separate ...
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Mounted NTFS filesystem takes up /home space.
I have a 500 Gig hard drive, ubuntu on it and I need to use as much space at my home dir as possible, however, my home dir somehow has only 15 Gigs of usable space.
When I run GParted, I see three ...
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Some funny directories appeared in my home folder!
I've recently installed Ubuntu Sever 12.04, and I've been having trouble with audio, and have been installing software to fix it.
However, after rebooting my computer in (a futile) attempt at getting ...
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How do I use a ntfs drive as location for music, videos etc?
I have a Windows/Ubuntu dual boot system, using three drives. Drive1 contains windows, drive2 contains downloads, music, videos and so on, drive3 contains Ubuntu.
I would like to have drive2 mounted ...
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Move the home directory back to single partition
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 ...
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“Serious errors found HF checking the drive for /home” After Moving /home to external HFSplus partition
I just installed Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" and Ubuntu 11.10 on my MacBook Pro. Using these instructions: tuxation.com/creating-home-partition-mac-linux.html . After changing the location of my home folder ...
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Automatically locking screen without shutting it off
Hey everyone— I have a home theater PC running Ubuntu 11.10, outputting over HDMI (for audio and video). I'm having an issue: I'd like the screen to lock automatically (when video is not playing, of ...
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Is it possible to boot without mounting /home?
I want to backup my /home partition on /dev/sda6 using partclone, a command line utility. To do so, I first have to unmount the partition that I want to backup. Most of the time, this is easy, but ...
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Sharing my home folders with other users on the same PC
After reviewing similar questions on the same subject Im still none the wiser. I want to share my music, pictures and video folders with other users on my pc. I am using 11.10 and will be upgrading ...
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Encrypted Home directory not auto mounting
I somehow managed to break auto-mounting for my encrypted home directory.
Every time I login via SSH, I see this:
valorin@joshua:~$ ls -la
total 44
dr-x------ 3 valorin valorin 4096 2012-03-17 ...
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What is ~/.face (binary)?
I just noticed this file, .face, in my home directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14747 2012-01-07 01:35 .face
Never seen it or heard of it before, and google doesn't seem to know either. ...
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accidentally initiated format of ext3 in win 7, how to recover? [closed]
I have a dual boot, win7 and ubuntu, system and started to format an empty partition on the drive while in win7, but in my haste thought that I had not started the formatting, reselected the partition ...
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post installation /home partition
i installed ubuntu 1st with the default partitions and now i want to migrate to a swap boot home ... partition layout.is it possible to change that after the installation ?
Best regards,
Georg
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why is there a copy of user home dir showing up in root?
I noticed today there is a directory called '~amir` in /. This seems really odd. The same directory is in my /home directory as amir is my username. They directories contain exactly the same data!
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Can I change personal folder locations?
I did this in Windows 7. My Documents, Videos, Music and other personal folders are in D:\ because it is my media disk.
In case of a system failure, I will always have access to these files when I ...
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Unable To Write To Samba Home Directories
So I have samba setup and running on my Ubuntu box. I've successfully logged in on my WinXP machine, and was able to browse my home directories but an unable to create files, folders, etc. No write ...
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encfs home directory: ssh access dismount after a while
I've setup an encrypted homedir according to this EncryptedHomeDirectoryHowto.
To gain ssh access I've added auth required pam_encfs.so to /etc/pam.d/sshd
$ cat /etc/pam.d/sshd | egrep -v ^#
auth ...
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Accessing Encrypted Home Folder / Return to Login Screen
I been having problems with ubuntu, in that I can reach the login screen, but when I enter my password it comes up with a black screen with some text and takes me back to the login screen - I can ...
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Home folder button “buggy” after opening specific program (Maple 15)
I've recently done a fresh installation of Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit (not wubi).
I had no problems, until I installed the program "Maple 15". Once I open Maple, the Home-button at the bar to the left, ...
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Need help with mount points during fresh install
I have decided to wait for Windows 8 Consumer Preview...
but till then i decided to try various linux distro
currently i dual boot with w7 n ubuntu
my ubuntu is one big partition / and a swap ...
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kubuntu move encrypted home dir to new SSD (keep encryption)
I already found how to move my encrypted home dir to new hd, but I have a comprehension question.
So when I installed kubuntu 11.10 I choose to have an encryption (I think there was only possible to ...
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Changing default install directory for Software Center
I want to change the default install path of the Ubuntu software center. I looked at this article: How do I change Software Center's default installation path? but a) it is for an older version of ...
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Drive Encryption - Situation after reinstall/upgrade?
I am considering encrypting my /home directory (I always have it in a separate drive partition) while I do a fresh install of upcoming 12.04 release. I have some concerns in this regard:
Now I am ...
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The Home Folder icon on the launcher will not open on Unity
I have to usually open the home folder by pressing the super key, than typing home manually. It will work if i remove the icon from the launcher, then re add it. Is there a way to fix that? I am using ...
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Steps to take before resizing partition to prevent damaging data
I use Ubuntu 11.10 and have three partitions, one ext4 for the root directory, one ext4 for the /home and one for swap.
I need to release disk space so I can increase swap space, and create a new ...
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What size should my root partition be if I'd to use like a separate /home partition?
I thought a basic layout would call for 3 partitions on the 160 GB hdd of my EEE netbook. It's got 1 GB RAM so I'll go with a swap partition the same size. The question is what size my / partition ...
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Redirecting directories in home partition
I have a 60GB SSD for my / filesystem but for more space I got a 16GB SD card for my /home partition. I'm worried it won't be able to take the amount to write the /home directory. So I was wondering ...
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How to install software into the home partition?
I have read some article about home partition in Ubuntu but I don't know why it is used widely. Because software I have installed via Ubuntu software center or deb package, they all automatically ...
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Unable to login after deleting my home partition?
I deleted my /home partition now I am unable to log on. When I log on as Guest I get a blank desktop
Is it possible to fix this preferably without reinstalling?
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Is it okay to delete ~/.cache?
When I use disk usage analyzer and scan my home folder .cache always shows up with a decent bit of things in it. Would it be okay for me to delete the contents of this folder or would it damage ...
