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I’m managed to totally fuck up moving my home/ directory onto the bigger SSD on my Eee PC. I tried to rollback my changes by copying the folder back to the correct place (as root) and removing stuff I’d added to fstab.

And then rebooted my machine.

Bad news, by copying the folder as root I’d effectively locked myself out my machine as Ubuntu doesn’t like it when the user folder isn’t writeable by the user. The error message that popped up suggested I fix the problem in a failsafe session. This was news to me but after a quick and panicked google I found that you can drop into a terminal window by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F1.

Handy to know