thanks for your reply, which prompted me to retest what i thought i had
done, wherepon i found it was my mistake - i had mistaken the media id
of my smartphone for the id of the hd partition where i keep all my own
files so i dont lose them when xubuntu next gets itself into an
unworkable state.  the media ids are so long i never can remember them;
fortunately, most times i dont have to, but when using wine, it seems i
do.
i could have set up /home on a different partition at installation but
forgot to do that the last time i had to fresh install xubuntu 14.04
because an app i use (openshot) would not install under an updated
xubuntu 12.04 due to some library packages becoming inconsistent with
the version of openshot in the repository (or some other reason, the
details of which i dont know and as an end-user dont want to have to
know).

it would be nice for end-users like me  if /home and any other folders
that store apps rather than kernel software could be mounted, by
default, in separate partitions so apps dont have to be redownloaded
every fresh install.  i guess expert users know which folders these are
and can configue their own reinstallations efficiently.

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