darren-garvey
November 4th, 2013, 03:17 AM
I have just installed Ubuntu 13.10 onto a system that's had various flavours of Fedora, then Debian on it. It has also been dual-boot with Windows 7 for a couple of years. I had been using LVM with those linux installations so for instance when I installed Debian I kept all of my original /home directories.
During the Ubuntu isntallation I manually set up the partitioning, setting /home to be mounted from the original LVM /home volume (/dev/fedora/home in my case), making sure to not tick the "format" box. This worked fine for Debian.
After completing the installation and booting, I can't see any of the previous home directories. The only cause I can think is that during installation I said to encrypt my user account's home folder. I made sure to pick a different user name to keep the original home directories intact, but something seems to have gone wrong. Ubuntu didn't warn me that it was going to wipe out /home after I told it not to.
Any suggestions as to where my directories may have gone?
During the Ubuntu isntallation I manually set up the partitioning, setting /home to be mounted from the original LVM /home volume (/dev/fedora/home in my case), making sure to not tick the "format" box. This worked fine for Debian.
After completing the installation and booting, I can't see any of the previous home directories. The only cause I can think is that during installation I said to encrypt my user account's home folder. I made sure to pick a different user name to keep the original home directories intact, but something seems to have gone wrong. Ubuntu didn't warn me that it was going to wipe out /home after I told it not to.
Any suggestions as to where my directories may have gone?