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On a completely fresh install of Ubuntu, I created only one root partition "/" on "DriveFOO" which holds all my system files, including my "/home" folder.

Now, I wish to instead have my "/home" mount point on another drive. No problem, in terminal I have run

sudo cp -rp /home/user /media/DriveBAR

Now I'll edit my fstab, and mount /home to "DriveBAR"... reboot, and no problem here!

What I am asking now is simply: after changing the mount point of "/home" what happens to the files that were in "/home" when its mount point was on DriveFOO's "/" ?

Thanks,

Brian

EDIT: in addition to accepted answer from bodhi.zazen, see link posted in comment to my question from user68186.

brneuro
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The old files are still on the old hard drive. If you boot to recovery mode and unmount home you will see them.

You can not see them with the new home mounted is all, they are sort of masked as you are pointing the location /home to the new space.

Panther
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