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snakeo2
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 Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject: How to properly mount /home partition |
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Hello,
During the installation process I created a separate /home partition which I planned on adding to /etc/fstab so i can put all my personal stuff on that partition. The issue im having is that after adding the partition to my fstab file and reboot....i get a message that " i can log into /root partition". Below is some info:
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fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9355c480
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 530144 265041 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 530145 2281229 875542+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 2281230 138608819 68163795 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 138608820 488392064 174891622+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 138608883 488392064 174891591 83 Linux
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The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
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# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
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# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda3 /root ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
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I've removed the line that added for my home partition (/dev/sda5)......not sure what I'm doing wrong or missing...the line i added was basically
/dev/sda5 /home ext3 noatime 0 1
All suggestions welcomed
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Etal
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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This does not look right:
| Code: | | dev/sda3 /root ext3 noatime 0 1 |
You probably meant "/" rather than "/root".
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hmmm...did not think that would make a difference...but let me make edits and retry adding the /sda5 partition...
same results. still the same error message "cannot enter home directory. Using /."
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Etal
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Well, the previous was wrong because "/" is the filesystem root. "/root" is the root user's home directory.
Could you describe what exactly happens? Do you get the message after you log in as user?
Are the permissions correct? What does it say if you "ls -l /home"?
(By the way, you don't have to reboot. Just add the entry, log out of your user, log in as root and run "mount /home")
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 1:21 am Post subject: |
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what does "mount" return?
and this is from my fstab
| Code: | /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 0 0
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/sda5 /home reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0 |
minus other partitions that don't matter
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I'm going to assume you made a mount point for /home in your root directory,
if not "mkdir /home"
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| Anon-E-moose wrote: | I'm going to assume you made a mount point for /home in your root directory,
if not "mkdir /home" |
That may have been the problem. I think I fixed the issue. First I created a /mnt point for my separate /home partition
mkdir /mnt/home
then
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/home
cd /home
cp -ax * /mnt/home
cd /
mv /home /home.old
mkdir /home
mount /dev/sda5 /home
rebooted and was able to login without any issues. my /sda5 partition is showing up kdiskutility......thanks to everyone.
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