Partition scheme problems (mount point query)

[pasha8]

Hi all,

I have been using ubuntu for a few years now and have only enjoyed it. I recently upgraded to a new machine and followed the partition scheme advise here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PartitioningSchemes). When I boot to ubuntu only the / partition is available (with very limited storage) while my /home resides under "other locations," essentially treated like an external drive or my windows partition.
Is there a way to consolidate my partitions so that all of my data is in one location? (I currently have two /home's, one under / and another in a different partition, /media/my_name/long_string_of_numbers/home.

The output of fdisk -l is:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 821247 819200 400M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2 821248 1353727 532480 260M EFI System
/dev/sda3 1353728 1615871 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 1615872 361471999 359856128 171.6G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 1892689920 1953513471 60823552 29G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 361472000 1763737599 1402265600 668.7G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7 1859274752 1892689919 33415168 16G Linux swap
/dev/sda8 1763737600 1859274751 95537152 45.6G Linux filesystem

Partition table entries are not in disk order.


It is the 45.6GB partition that appears under "files" and I have to elaborately navigate to the 668.7GB one.

Thank you in advance for any advice!

[yancek]

(I currently have two /home's, one under / and another in a different partition, /media/my_name/long_string_of_numbers/home.

If you have a separate data partition and you named it home, you should change it to something more logical, like data. Having two separate /home entries is going to be confusing. You simply create a mount point for the second "home" which contains your data and then put an entry in the /etc/fstab file so that it mounts and is accessible on boot.

Create the mount point with:

sudo mkdir /mnt/data

Change data to some other name if you want. An example fstab entry for a data partition below. Change the "/dev/sda9" part to the correct partition in your case or use a UUID. Lots of sample entries for fstab if you do an online search.

/dev/sda9 /mnt/data ext4 auto,user,rw 1 2