/home

[voidmain]

Perfect. Now, make sure you have enough room in the new partition to hold everything currently in /home:

# du -sk /home

[Doogee]

its a new install, so i have pretty much nothing in /home, a few rpms thats about it.

[voidmain]

Ok then, the final thing to worry about is to make sure nothing has a lock on any files under /home. If you are logged on as root, and no other users are logged on then you should be good (root's home directory is not under /home).

Now just follow the directions in the previous note but use "/dev/hda7" where I originally said "/dev/hda3" starting at the:

# mv /home/* /mnt/disk

[ November 11, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

alright ill log in as root now, ive been su'ing this whole time, brb, ill tell you the outcome.

[Doogee]

help! i need to rollback that, i cant get into kde, i mustve fucked up somewhere, help me, im in black box using links cos mozilla wont start without access to $HOME.

[voidmain]

Did the "/home" partition mount?

# df -k /home

Are the directories right on it?

# ls -al /home

P.S. Why can't you use Mozilla when logged in as root? root's $HOME directory is not under /home.

[ November 11, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

/home didnt mount.

im logged on as user at the moment.

[voidmain]

Type:

# mount /dev/hda7 /home

Then check your /etc/fstab, you must have made a typo in it.

[Doogee]

fuck, i just got mount point /home does not exist. eek

[voidmain]

You must have moved /home into /mnt/disk instead of moving "/home/*" to /mnt/disk. Type:

# mkdir /home
# mount /home
# ls -al /home

If the above works and you see a "/home/home" directory then my suspicions are correct. No problem, just do:

# cd /home/home
# mv * ..
# cd ..
# rmdir home

[Doogee]

it just doesnt work, im gonna fuckit and format the partitions and reisntall. im thinking if i make the /home a seperate partition from the start then it will all be auto set up. do any mandrake users know if this is correct.
o well im gonna do it anyway.

thanks for the help void, im sure ill be needing more soon.

ahh its formatitn' time.

[voidmain]

Oh, don't whimp out on me. You are almost there...

[Doogee]

it just wont work, i have basically no access to linux, im in fucking windows and its already pissing me off.

[voidmain]

You have no access to Linux?  How's that? Did you f00k up your /etc/fstab and the "/" filesystem is not mounting? If so, did you try booting in single user mode and fixing it? C'mon, this is the way you learn. Don't reinstall, that's a cop out.  

[Doogee]

all i know is on boot i get something like

[mtent]fstab error on line 4


line four is the fd0 config!!!!!!!!!!!!!