jbrown96
September 13th, 2009, 08:11 PM
It can be a good idea to keep /home on a separate paritition; it can make it quicker to do a reinstall. However, if you want to make your system only use one partition, here's the procedure.
1) Boot from a LiveCD
2) Mount both partitions.
mkdir Desktop/root && sudo mount /dev/sda2 Desktop/root
mkdir Desktop/home && sudo mount /dev/sda7 Desktop/home
3) Create a folder called home.
sudo mkdir Desktop/root/home
4) copy your user(s) folder(s) into there.
ls Desktop/home/ This will show you the folders then
sudo cp -R Desktop/root/home/USER replace USER with what you found with ls. This shouldn't take too long. You may need to repeat this for multiple users.
5) Update your fstab. First make a backup just in case.
sudo cp Destkop/root/etc/fstab Desktop/root/etc/fstab.backup
sudo gedit Destkop/root/etc/fstab This will open a text editor and you will have something like this:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=b212a9ce-a0f6-48b2-bb48-d328ccc1ed99 / ext4 noatime,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
I have my system all on one partition (it's the line with UUID at the beginning). You will have an additional line that will have /home/ as the mount point; just delete that entire line. Save and exit.
6) Reboot
7) Verify that /dev/sda7 is not being mounted
mount -l This will list out all mounted file systems; look through the list and make sure /dev/sda7 is not on the list.