Installing to wrong partition?

[Telliria]

Hmmm... lets see where to start....

I had fedora 8 installed on my 500Gb HD (sata) which was divided into

- System (10 Gb)
- Swap (2 Gb)
- Home (rest)

Today I was going to reinstall to fedora 10 and did it from the live xfce spin. In the installation I choose to format the system partition and I set the mount point for /home on the home partition. I had some trouble with grub so I had to redo it twice, but I did it the same way all three times. Now when I got into the system I find that I have all system folders in the system partition as well as having what seems to be my old system folders in my home partition. My only explanation for this is that I when installing fedora 8 (which was my first time with linux) managed to create partitions correctly but anyway putting it all to the partition intended for home.

So the real problem now is that despite finding all my old system files I can't get to my personal documents because my profile folder only goes to an empty (generic) profile folder. The properties still say that there is only as much free space as there used to be, but I can't find the files. Does anyone have a solution for my dilemma?

[daverj]

what do you mean by system partition? Do you mean the root partition? Show the output of /etc/fstab and the df command.

[Telliria]

Obviously the files were in /home/home/username/


This is what the file says. In the terminal I only get permission denied (even as root)
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Mon Dec 22 23:16:28 2008
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
UUID=a963d7a3-01f6-4a88-8aa5-86010ecb07b2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

df gives
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 10078908 2022976 7953624 21% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
468583952 161868592 306715360 35% /home
tmpfs 516880 100 516780 1% /dev/shm