On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Kyle <kyle@xxxxxx> wrote: > According to message: > # No mountpoints are shown. What tool is available to determine if sda5 is > # the /home directory of the previous (mandriva) installation? I want to > # perform a base installation, leaving the /home directory un-touched. > > If you are using the live iso, nothing is mounted by default. Your best > bet in that case is to mount sda5 and sda6 in turn and list the contents > of each filesystem. Most likely, sda6 is your previous /home, so you can > try mounting sda5 first. If you get what looks to be the top level / > directory of a Linux filesystem, you can unmount it, overwrite the > filesystem, remount it in /mnt to keep things as simple as possible, > make a home directory inside of the mount point and then mount sda6 in > /mnt/home, assuming you initially mounted sda5 in /mnt. Hope this helps. > ~Kyle > http://kyle.tk/ > -- > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" lsblk lists even drives / partitions that are not mounted. If the partitions vary in size, you can tell which one is which just by that. $ mount | grep sdb $ lsblk | grep sdb sdb 8:16 0 74.5G 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 0 74.5G 0 part
