re-partition new drive and use new partition as 'home'

Posted by vector on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by vector
Published on 2012-06-17T02:54:38Z Indexed on 2012/06/17 3:24 UTC
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Linux noob here. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a brand new drive (dual boot with windows on another drive) and re-partitioned it afterwards (with gparted off of live cd) like so (sudo fdisk -l) :

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *        2048    63735807    31866880   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2      1448509438  1465147391     8318977    5  Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdb3        63735808  1448507391   692385792   83  Linux
/dev/sdb5      1448509440  1465147391     8318976   82  Linux swap / Solaris

I'd like to use sdb3 as default home for all work and fun related program installs and files, but I haven't even gotten as far as changing permissions on it.

Any help will be most appreciated.

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