Re: /home partition

From: alex (radsky_at_ncia.net)
Date: 09/06/03

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    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
               |
    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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