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manucorrales
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject: Keeping home partition intact |
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Hi, i really messed up my gentoo system, so now i am going to reinstall.
I have my /home and /opt in separates partitions.
How can i achieve to leave this partitions untouched and mount them on the original places back again after the reinstall??
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nixnut
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Simply don't mount them while installing. But do add them to /etc/fstab (in the chroot ofcourse) so they will be mounted by the installed system afterwards.
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wuzzerd
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| Just put them in your new fstab with the proper mount points. |
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manucorrales
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ok, thanks. My doubt is when i unpack the stage tar because has the /home and /opt directories. This will not override my dirs, right??
Also after this, how can i set that my user folder belong to the user i created?? |
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nixnut
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| manucorrales wrote: | | ok, thanks. My doubt is when i unpack the stage tar because has the /home and /opt directories. This will not override my dirs, right?? |
If you don't mount them in the first place that is not possible. Furthermore, the stage files don't put any files in /home and only the java-vm in /opt. Unpacking a stage file will overwrite existing files with the same name, but won't touch anything else.
| Quote: | | Also after this, how can i set that my user folder belong to the user i created?? |
chown -R johndoe /home/johndoe
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manucorrales
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | chown -R johndoe /home/johndoe |
This would make the dir belong to the user (like i badly ask), but how i set that the user's home folder is the one i want?? |
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