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I want to reformat my home partition from ext3 to ntfs

I have three partitions: one with Ubuntu 12.04, the other is a data partition (the largest of the three) and the last one has Windows 7. First I installed Ubuntu, then I formatted the data partition ...
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Does LVM enable me to resize my /home partition?

With 13.04 here, I'm planning on wiping my computer and reinstalling. I have two hard drives, and I've heard that LVM allows the two drives to work together, as if they are a single drive. I've also ...
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Keeping the same /home partition after a clean install

I currently have 2 partitions for my ubuntu installation: A / partition and a /home partition. When Ubuntu 13.04 is released I plan to reinstall ubuntu while keeping the same home partition. Is it ...
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files do not save in /media/data

New to Ubuntu, a free OS of greatness, I followed the step by step procedure in one of the online resources of Ubuntu for installing the OS. As instructed, I learned that I have to create the ...
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Install with existing /home (encrypted)

I have a separate /home partition, and I'm about to perform a reinstall (13.04 beta). I plan to set up the same user that I have now. My current home folder is encrypted. Will the installer ...
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When trying to save music to home on Ubuntu, it says I would only have 20GB space even though my partition has 270GB, what's wrong?

I'm a bit stuck here, and I'm new to Ubuntu so please forgive me if this is a stupid question :D. Lately, I tried to save 60GB of Music to my home folder's music folder in Ubuntu but it said there ...
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Are the advantages of having /home on a separate partition actually advantages?

With reference to answers given here, it is mentioned multiple times that the main advantage is the ability to change/reinstall Ubuntu versions without losing configuration files. However, will a new ...
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Why does Ubuntu create a @home directory on home partition?

I want several Linux distros to share the same home/data partition, each having a unique user name and implicitly a separate home directory. I installed Debian Wheezy, and formatted this partition as ...
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Boot hangs after I have moved home partition

I have a Dell Inspiron with pre-installed Ubuntu 11.10. It has a huge root partition without swap, home etc. I have decided to repartition the system. Since I did not want to delete dellutility and os ...
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What is the use of this second, almost unused Ubuntu partiton?

I installed Ubuntu on my netbook quite some time ago, and I don't remember what did I do - but I'd expect I went with more or less default settings. Now I have two partitions (one ext3 and one ext4, ...
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Can I replace disk containing /home without reinstalling Ubuntu?

I have formatted my hard disks so that /home sits in one separate disk. Now that disk has become faulty. I am wondering whether it is possible to replace only that disk and make a new /home partion on ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 13 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: A common /home partition for multiple Linux distributions I know this question has been asked so many times, but I don't know what should I do in my case with those ...
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How to install Ubuntu, remove Mint and set up a separate home partition?

I've got a dual-booting laptop - Windows 7 & Linux Mint 13 - and I want to get rid of Mint, keep Windows 7 and install Ubuntu 12.04. Also, I want to have a separate home partition (I've only got ...
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Home on its own partition [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I see the partitions? I have installed 11.10 and looking to do in place upgrade to 12.04 LTS. I think I partitioned it such that home is its own partition so an ...
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How to convert /tmp partition in to other format ? also give some details about /tmp partition?

I'm new to Ubuntu so don't know much about partitions. I have a 320Gb Hard-drive on a HP DV6 i3 2150us. When I was installing Ubuntu I gave 100 Gb to /tmp mount point thinking that it would be a ...
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How to partition HDD and dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 7 (first installed win7) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I set up a dual boot Windows and Ubuntu? Hello'World'! I am coming from another planet (Windows planet) but i'm friendly and i hope you are also !?! I recently ...
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Other /home directory

I've worked for some time with ubuntu and know the basics but I'm having some trouble with the /home directory. So I installed Ubuntu and it created a 10GB partition for the installation of programs ...
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Partition scheme on SSD and HDD

I am reformatting my laptop but I am not sure how to setup my partition. I have a 120GB SSD and a 320GB HDD. I was planing to setup / on the SSD and /home on the HDD. Will placing my /home on the ...
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How to mount a partition as /home and remove old /home directory [closed]

I just reinstalled Mint, and my old /home partition is now just recognized as a mounted partition (I can still access the files). Is there a way for me to get rid of my new /home, and replace it with ...
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My /home is unlocated after Boot repair

OK here the thing... I wanted a Windows7 install beside my existing Ubuntu 12.04LTS. So I Googled some and used many wikis to figure it out. I made some free space for my windows installation on my ...
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Can I share my home directory between Ubuntu and another Linux OS?

I am currently in the process of reinstalling my laptop. I've been using Ubuntu so far, and now would like to install openSUSE additionally. I will use both OS's with mostly the same application (i. ...
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Setting the /home partition in a drive through a LAN

I want to install Ubuntu and I would like to set my /home partition in an external USB hard drive that is directly connected to my router, and access my data through the LAN connection. Can it be ...
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Why is the root partition on my disk full?

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 by doing a fresh install where there was previously Ubuntu 11.10. My computer warns me now that my disk is nearly full. After having run apt-get purge, run apt-get autoremove ...
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Unallocated space, how to resize /home partition?

I removed my Windows OS and now I want to resize my /home partition with that unallocated space. The main problem is that the free space is not under my sda4. How to move it there and then resize my ...
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What are the pros and cons of having a separate home partition?

This is not a question about how to create a home partition, just as a caveat. :) What are the pros and cons to having a separate home partition? How do I know if having one is right for me? Will it ...
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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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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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“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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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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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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What should I think about before using one partition as /home for two different systems?

My situation is as follows: Ubuntu with GNOME-Shell installed on /dev/sda3, with it's own /home directory. Lubuntu installed on /dev/sda5, with it's own /home directory. Data files (music, movies, ...
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Mount FAT32 filesystem as /home during installation?

Setup in Ubuntu 11.10 installation gives me this message while in advanced partitioning: "The file system type fat32 cannot be mounted on /home, because it is not a fully-functional Unix file system. ...
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Separate but united Home directory

My hard disk is separated into 3 parts. 1. system 2. home (my stuff, work and such) 3. swap The original idea is that i can reinstall and/or configure and/or experiment with the system without ...
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How do I migrate an Ubuntu installation to a home folder partition?

I have two partitions of Ubuntu installed on my Samsung N150 Plus. One is 11.04 (90GB) and one is 11.10 (60GB). All my documents are on the 11.04 home folder, but they are too big to cut and paste ...
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How to install with separate home partition (home partition already created in previous installation)?

I have Ubuntu 10.10 install on my system with /boot, swap, /root and /home partition. I wish to install 11.10 in my system. In the installation screen The options were: 1 - Erase Ubuntu 11.04 and ...
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How do I put /home in a different partition?

Yeah, so I have 2 hard drives, on with 2 partitions(backups and windows), and I have another that also has 2 partitions with only one used. I have Ubuntu on hard drive 2:partition one, but I have come ...
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Help restoring partitions

I need some help. I have to partitions: one is / and the other is Home. I have an image created with Clonezilla of my partition /. If I want a fresh install of Ubuntu can I seth the path to my Home ...
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How to move $HOME to an encrypted partition?

I have an unencrypted $HOME (I used the very basic installation with no further partitioning and no encryption at all). Now I want to move my $HOME to an encrypted partition on an external drive (or ...
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How to remove subvol from partition?

I installed Natty 64-bit with btrfs filesystem only to find that it takes almost two minutes to boot. I tried a few different things, and finally today opened up /etc/fstab only to find the ...
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how do I resize my home partition (ext4) on runtime? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: how to resize a ext4 root partition a runtime? I am using ubuntu 11.04. I have installed GParted. I wanted to resize my home folder cuz its low in free space but ...
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How to undo move /home into /old_home?

I accidentally skipped the step "Preparing fstab for the switch" and moved on to the next step of "Moving /home into /old_home" under the documentation for setting up a separate home partition here: ...
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Recovering from a move of /home when it's encrypted (ecryptfs)

I had a 20GB / partition at work that dual-booted with Windows and it quickly ran out of space. I usually do 20GB / and 160GB (or whatever the rest of the hard drive is) as /home, so I intended on ...
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Increase the /home partition without losing the data

I have a 320 GB harddrive with three partitions / , /home and swap. What I want to do is change the size of swap which now is 8 GB to 5 GB and append that 3 GB to my /home partition. I have searched ...
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Home on a different partition

How do I define a separate partition for Home? How does it affect systems with multiple users? EDIT Okay, thanks for all the answers, I understand the thing about Home on adifferent partition, so ...
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Re-mouting the old home partition after a fresh install

Thanks to this thread I know now that I should've done this during the installation part. But I didn't. So I'm left with my system partition and a old home partition that acts as an extra drive. I ...
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Problems trying to move my /home partition

I was running low in disk space on my Linux box, Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop, (specifically on my /home partition) so I added another disk to it and I am trying to move the home partition into it. I am ...
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Choose another partition for /home directory during installation of Ubuntu? [duplicate]

Since this question as addition in another question i created got lost, here is it as a separate question. Is there a possibility to choose another partition for /home directory during installation ...

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