Re: /home partition
VEGH Karoly wrote:
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote:
I read the data in hda2 but there's nothing there except
./ and ../. When I read the regular /home directory (under /), all
the usual /home data is present.
The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there
shows that there is a separate partition for /home.
Is it necessary to edit /etc/fstab and manually enter a line
for hda2 to show that it is the /home directory? If so, what should
this entry be?
Well if you do not have it there, you'll have to do it by hand, won't you?
/dev/hda2 /home ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
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I didn't have to manually enter it after I finished the procedure.
This line was created in /etc/fstab when I performed the steps you
described.
before you would do this, do the following :
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt # mounting the right partition (succeeds if the fs is OK
hda2 had been formatted during the installation but apparently had
no file system. I had to do mkfs to set the file system before this
command worked.
cp -a /home/* /mnt # copying data
rm -rf /home/* # use with care. this deletes the old home/ data
# so that u do not waste space afterwards
> umount /mnt # umounting /daev/hda2
afterwards you can try a 'mount -a' command, then check if the partition
is mounted ok.
The procedure went OK after I did the mkfs and it created
/dev/hda2 /home ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
in /etc/fstab. I didn't have to type it in.
Now when I enter data in /home, it appears in
hda2 as I thought it should.
Thanks for the kick start-----alex
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