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I am performing a fresh installation of Ubuntu Studio 24.04.1 LTS on a small SSD connected to an Intel DH67GD mainboard. My previous installation (Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS) had /home on a separate HD, which I would like to continue to use as /home in the new installation.

I have created a bootable USB from the Ubuntu Studio download using Rufus 4.5. I can use it partition my SSD (sda) as desired and install Ubuntu on it.

However, when installing (regardless of whether I use the BIOS or UEFI boot option) I am unable to designate my /home drive as having a my /home partition. In fact, it looks as though the installer fails to recognise the format of the drive (sdc). IAC, it insists on creating /home under / and gives me no opportunity to specify that it should be on a different HD, much less to preserve an existing /home instead of creating a new one.

This is not (nor is it intended to be) a dual-boot system.

Any advice would be welcome!

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Thanks for the comments:

There was nothing wrong with the partition.

I am familiar with the 22.04 installation. In fact I installed it the way it is shown in the instructions referred to by @user68186, keeping my /home from my 18.04 installation. In the 24.04 installation, there was no opportunity to select a /home. The installation simply proceeded once I had configured sda, creating a home directory under /.

I fixed the problem by using the live environment to add a line for /home to /etc/fstab on sda:

/dev/disk/by-uuid/8a3b46ff-fe33-4b5c-b3a3-5b96f247235e /home ext4 defaults 0 2

Thanks for all the help!

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