I have a old sata hard drive with Linux mint, a / partition and a /home partition (amongst others), I recently put this hard drive into a machine which also has another linux distro on and did a update-grub from that machine to see the old / filesystem.

Problem is when I load the old linux system it doesn't map /home correctly and I can't see my old home folder.

What is the solution to this?

Thanks!

Nat

if your old disk has separated / and /home partition, you just need to mount old /; type 'mount' or 'lsblk' to see if old /home is already mounted, or do it yourself: 'mount -t ext2/3/4 /dev/sdXY /mount/where/you/want' where -t define old /home fs type (ext4 by default, for very old system is ext2), /dev/sdXY (usually X=b, as you have only one disk installed and the old one is the second disk connected, otherwise X=c or d... pendrives count too; Y is the ordinal for partitions inside the disk, 1 is for first parition, usually /, /home could be 2 or 5, look at lsblk command)

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thanks gengisdave, and if I want it to mount each time automatically? Do I edit fstab?

yes, but i think you have a user tool to mount partitions, like udisks

thanks for your help ;oD

actually the problem was to do with UUID's not being recognised correctly. Actually I had not enabled the sata drives in the BIOS (the other drives all being SCSI), this fixed it.

Even tho UUID's are SUPPOSED to be more robust and reliable, trying to use them has always given me more headaches than sticking with the old-fashioned ways.

However, what I am adding a note for is to add a cautionary note. You should not mount /home from another distro, or an older distro, or from another machine (even the same distro), at /home. This is because there are many configuration files in /home, and it is quite probable your distro will gag on the foreign configs. Of course, you can mount it in some other location, no prob.

And fstab to make it a regular thing, right.