reinstall and restoring /home

[icarid_17]

hello,i have looked around and i could not find a post that had the answer i really need. here's my problem:
I have reinstalled Ubuntu ultimate and preserved my /home partition, sda9, how do i restore all my settings from that? or make it my home partition, rather that the default?

[albinootje]

or make it my home partition, rather that the default?

Is you username the same as before ?
If so, boot into "recovery mode", choose "drop to root shell prompt", and edit /etc/fstab :


nano /etc/fstab

create a new line :


/dev/sda9 /home ext3 relatime 0 2

Save the file, and reboot.

[icarid_17]

awesome, will try when i get home. one question though, will i retain all the new compiz functionality of Ubuntu Ultimate 2.0? or will i have to reinstall compiz, i'm thinking i won't but i would like to be prepared

[albinootje]

awesome, will try when i get home. one question though, will i retain all the new compiz functionality of Ubuntu Ultimate 2.0? or will i have to reinstall compiz, i'm thinking i won't but i would like to be prepared

No idea, I don't use compiz, hopefully someone else has an answer on this for you.

[icarid_17]

No idea, I don't use compiz, hopefully someone else has an answer on this for you.

turns out that i can export my compiz preferences to a file

[icarid_17]

Is you username the same as before ?
If so, boot into "recovery mode", choose "drop to root shell prompt", and edit /etc/fstab :


nano /etc/fstab

create a new line :


/dev/sda9 /home ext3 relatime 0 2

Save the file, and reboot.

turns out that doesn't do what i want, it certainly worked properly in that it reverted me to my old /home but it also brought along the problems that getting ubuntu ultimate 2.0 has fixed.
is it possible to bring my wine stuff and some other programs over to my ubuntu 2.0 /home partition?, i can mount the old partition while running in the new partition, in case that has some bearing on what i can do.

[icarid_17]

can anyone help?