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Question #46718 on Ubuntu Eee changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+question/46718

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PJO proposed the following answer:
I'm having another look at this now.

First, a small correction): /media/HOME/users above should read
/media/HOME/user

My /etc/fstab mounts

/dev/sda1 -- Ubuntu
/dev/sda5 -- swap partition
/dev/sdc1 -- /media/cdrom0 

no sdb1 there, although cdrom0, cdrom and HOME are in /media on sdb1

I've just had a look at the original /etc/fstab file save from a backup
before I installed Ubuntu:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=567e3e0e-6160-47f8-8dd4-ae8783f11ef1 /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=df136aea-b36c-4051-a1bf-3b0ad4e8eaec none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sdc1       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

I'm surprised as I expected to see

/dev/sdb1 /media/HOME ...

in there. Running df yields

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              7435056   2620424   4439920  38% /
varrun                  513472       108    513364   1% /var/run
varlock                 513472         0    513472   0% /var/lock
udev                    513472        60    513412   1% /dev
devshm                  513472        28    513444   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1             31024832    328424  29120436   2% /media/HOME

so sdb1 is being mounted and treated as removable media. I'm not sure
how this happens.

ls -ls /media/HOME

yields (abbreviating)

 root root  lost+found
 paul paul user

The user folder contains the directories I mentioned earlier. I've now
found

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+question/44555

and

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/

In the first case the same problem you encountered shows up. This is
what I want to avoid!

What I will try to do is copy my home folder to /media/HOME, rather than
move it, and then see if I can make that version active.

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