Re: /home partition
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
before you would do this, do the following :
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt # mounting the right partiotion (succeeds if the fs
# is alright on the partition.
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.
> What's a possible reason why the /home partition didn't 'take'
> during the installation process?
erm ... something got screwd up? :)
> Is it always necessary to do some
> post-installation editing (/etc/fstab ??)
> after a partition is
> selected for a /directory?
no.
HTH
charlie
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