Hi,

I have a toshiba tecra laptop with 120gb hard-disk. I have about 18gb mounted on / and 1.2 gb as swap and the rest mounted on /home running Kubuntu 7.10. I have a bunch of videos and music in the /home partition. Its too difficult to move them to another computer. So I would like to keep. But I want to partition my /home for the new Ubuntu 8.04 as the old one has config settings for KDE and I want to customize gnome from scratch.

So, using the live cd I resized /home and created a new partition of about 28gb which corresponds to the size of the stuff I need to backup. My intention was to move all the music/videos/docs etc to this new partition and NOT format during the new install so that I can have access to them later. I formated the new partition as ext3 which is the same fs for my other partitions.

After doing this, I rebooted into Kubuntu. Ideally, I would like to mount this new partition to /backup or something and transfer the stuff I need there. But I cannot see the new partition that I created. My question is how do I get the new partition to show and access it so backup my stuff there.

Thanks.

Use the mount command as root.

So, for instance, it could be

Change the partition to mount and mount point as needed.

you may also want to edit your

/etc/fstab

file, and make the mount point permanent. Search around the forum for ways to do this, there's plenty of good pointers..