Re: /home partition
From: alex (radsky_at_ncia.net)
Date: 09/06/03
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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 13:57:54 -0400 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote:
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>>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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