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john-doe
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 Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:13 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] forgot to mount /home... |
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Hi there! just installed a few hours ago but did a little mistake: forgot to mount /home partition...any help will be appreciated...
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John R. Graham
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Doesn't boot right, right? No sweat. Just- Boot the install media.
- Mount all the drives.
- Get back in the chroot. See NeddySeagoons' Rough Guide to Chrooting.
- Modify /etc/fstab to mount your /home partition.
- Exit the chroot, unmount all the drives, and reboot.
That's about it. 
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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john-doe,
Welcomr to Gentoo.
What John R. Graham works unless you have made a normal user alread or have other things in /home
You neeed to copy them out to the real hoem before you reboot.
After the Modify | Code: | | /etc/fstab to mount your /home partition |
You need to mount your real home partition somewhere, so you can copy the directory /home to it.
Add in
| Code: | | mount /dev/... /mnt/cdrom |
your real home
| Code: | | cp -a /home/* /mnt/cdrom/ |
Verify the copy worked - I often get an extra /home.
to get your used /home space back. /home should be empty at the point as when you reboot the content of /mnt/cdrom will become /home
Go ahead and reboot to test.
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:20 pm Post subject: Re: forgot to mount /home... |
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| john-doe wrote: | | Hi there! just installed a few hours ago but did a little mistake: forgot to mount /home partition...any help will be appreciated... |
Alright, just guessing, you didn't mount your /home before creating your user? If my guess is correct, boot up, make sure /home is not mounted, move your home somewhere safe, mount /home, move the contents of /home back.
Of course, it is hard to understand what exactly you need help with.
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| solved! how? just added /home to /etc/fstab... |
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