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/home and all that

corblimey · 2008-06-30 18:06:42

When I was installing Ubuntu 8.04, I followed the guidelines and set up a couple of different partitions, one for /home and one for /data. When I access /home, all that's in there is some empty folders (Documents, Public, etc) and a link folder to /usr/share. And all that's in /data is a 'Lost+Found' folder. Did I do…

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#32 03-07-2008 08:51PM

FruitLover

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corblimey wrote: »

I assume if I umount and mount again, this will stick between restarts?

Nope, you'll have to put it in your /etc/fstab. Probably the easiest way is to edit the existing file (back it up first just in case!) and change /data to /mnt/tmp (or make a more descriptive mount point like /mnt/stuff or whatever). Might be a bit cleaner doing it this way rather than having a data dir right on your root.

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