attached message with regard to moving /home to a new partition so i
have more space for my files etc
Paul
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Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:41:11PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
>
>> formatting the drive, dragging / dropping the contents of /home to the
>> new drive and editing fstab or mtab (or whatever) to point to the new
>> /home mount point seems far too simple.
>>
>
> This is unix. It is that simple.
>
> Format the drive, mount it on /mnt/tmp-home or something, copy
> everything in /home to /mnt/tmp-home, then update /etc/fstab to mount
> the new drive on /home.
>
>
Ok this still isn't working
/sda7 is now newly formatted to ext3
/sda5 is my current /home parition
contents of /sda5/ have been copied over with cp -a
my old fstab file looks like this
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=5fe0b542-d40b-455e-8bc4-ef64b819639d / ext3
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=9b5fd981-043b-4960-99a0-37fb7a3dbcc1 /home ext2
relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda6
UUID=c3cc4e3f-eb87-4e21-bf7a-28ddca9de2d3 none swap
sw 0 0
#/dev/sda7 UUID=d15c6c4a-61dc-4792-bd77-3d0e297f2bf0 ext3 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/scd2 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
this one works allows me to log in
the one I am trying toedit looks like this
/dev/scd2 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
psut...@desktop:~$
psut...@desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab.bak2
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=5fe0b542-d40b-455e-8bc4-ef64b819639d / ext3
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=9b5fd981-043b-4960-99a0-37fb7a3dbcc1 /old_home ext2
relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda6
UUID=c3cc4e3f-eb87-4e21-bf7a-28ddca9de2d3 none swap
sw 0 0
#/dev/sda7
UUID=d15c6c4a-61dc-4792-bd77-3d0e297f2bf0 /home ext3
relatim 0 2
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/scd2 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
i creatred a back up so i can restore the original, clearly i rename
this 2nd one to fstab before rebooting and trying to log in
With this 2nd fstab file i get as far as the login screen (gdm)
log in and get a message
cannot enter home directory using /.
it then doesn't give me a desktop
my media directory has the following
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom -> cdrom0
dr-xr-xr-x 26 root root 20480 2008-12-13 16:12 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-11 13:50 cdrom2
drwx------ 6 psutton root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 disk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-12 20:42 disk-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-13 18:11 music
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-12-13 17:41 temp-home
i have mounted /sda7 on temp-home
Can anyone please help, as I need this extra disk space
Paul
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