Re: /home partition
Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote:
I opted for a separate partition (hda2) for /home during the
installation of Debian and it was duly formatted. However, the
partition doesn't seem to be as performing as a /home directory.
Instead, the regular /home directory under / seems to be doing
the job.
You forgot to mount it as such during install. You can fix this
easily.
It seems to me that I did opt to have hda2 in its own partition and
it was formatted during the installation but that's as much that I
could do then.
# shutdown now
(wait a little)
# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
Doesn't this command require that hda2 have
a proper file system in order to work?
My hda2 didn't seem to have a file system even
though it was formatted during the installation
of Debian and I don't recall if there was a system option
at that time.
# cp -ax /home /mnt
(wait a long time)
# rm -r /home
# mkdir /home
# editor /etc/fstab
(add a new entry for /home)
# shutdown -rF now
(wait for reboot, you now have /home where you expect it)
It sounds like a simple thing but I'm not that experienced that
I could confidently edit /etc/fstab to properly add an entry for
/home. I've visted many websites for this and they have fine
instructions like yours and they mention editing /etc/fstab but
none actually went beyond just mentioning editing. I just didn't
know the exact thing to type in manually. That's immaterial now
because I used commands similar to yours but added a mkfs step and
that did the trick. /etc/fstab now has /dev/hda2 /home...........
I believe I now have the /home partition (hda2) working as it
should. When I do a ls /home it shows the same data as when I do ls
hda2 (I have to access hda2 first with an alias that I created for
this purpose)
Thanks anyway.
alex
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