Problem re-installing partition /

[brunn]

Hi everyone.

I've searched for a while now but can't seem to find anything about my problem. Hope someone here has a clue.

The thing is I had to re-install LMDE, but only the / partition because I didn't want to loose some configuration files and other info I had on /home. But after re-installing I went to /home/my_user only to find out it was empty, well not empty, but only with the usual default folders and settings, as if it had been re-installed as well. After a short moment of panicking I noticed a new 6G partition, mounted it and saw all the info I thought I had lost. So, where did the "new" /home came from? and how do I restore my original /home so I don't have to mount it every time?
I'd never re-installed like this so an additional question would be: is it normal or did I mess up during the process?

Hope I was clear, I thought this was pretty weird so I hope someone can help. Thanks!

[nujinini]

Hi!

I'm afraid you might have overwritten your data when you reinstalled.

Can you please post the output of

# fdisk -l
# df -h

[brunn]

# fdisk -l shows (sda5 is / and sda6 is /home):

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x23182317

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2350 18875360+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2350 19458 137414656 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2351 3656 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 3656 4439 6291456 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 4439 5484 8388608 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 5484 6528 8388608 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 19327 19458 1048576 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda10 6528 17238 86028288 83 Linux

and # df -h:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 9.9G 8.5G 870M 91% /
tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 502M 232K 502M 1% /dev
tmpfs 505M 92K 505M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda10 81G 1.4G 76G 2% /media/data
/dev/sda6 6.0G 1.7G 4.0G 31% /media/7c7d6966-fa64-4386-9a46-9a583

By the way, when I set the partition sizes I gave "/" only 8G because I thought it to be enough, but earlier today I reached the limit (after having LMD installed for less than a week) and I it didn't make sense since I haven't installed that many programs, could this be related?

Thanks for your help!

[brunn]

It's taken care of. Here's what I did in case someone else makes the same mistake :P

# gedit /etc/fstab

add

/dev/sdaX /home filetype defaults 0 0

then mount, restart and that's it.

Thanks for your reply nujinini!

[nujinini]

Whew! I pretty glad you've got it working already! Your welcome.