Tuesday, December 19, 2017

installation - I upgraded to 11.10 but my home partition is missing, how can I recover it?

When I installed Ubuntu 11.04, I created a separate home partition. I have just installed Ubuntu 11.10. In the installation screen The options were:




  1. Erase Ubuntu 11.04 and reinstall

  2. Upgrade Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10


  3. Erase everything and reinstall

  4. Something else



I chose the option called "Erase Ubuntu 11.04 and reinstall".



Now that installation has finished, I have logged in but everything is fresh, my home partition was ignored or not recognized. So Opps... I must have choosen the wrong installation type from the menu - Doh!



Luckily, there is a glimmer of hope because I can see the old home partition in nautilus complete with my old home data and i can see the partition in sudo fdisk -l.




How can I recover my old home partition so that the new 11.10 uses it and everything is back to normal?



Should I re-install but choose a different option? Or is there some command line fu I can use to get me back up and running?

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