[PLUG] fstab question

John Sechrest sechrest at gmail.com
Wed May 15 15:37:05 UTC 2013


Yes. I know this problem. It has been a very long time since I have looked
in this space, but it is related to having all the files in the right
place, at the right  time so that the login process can get to what it
needs to get to, with the right permissions.

Debugging what particular piece of that is out of alignment is well worth
the effort and much better than the link solution, which will work for the
short term and create a huge mess at the end of the day.






On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Marvin Kosmal <mkosmal at gmail.com> wrote:

> John
>
> Did you see my original post.  I tried that  and had some crazy problem.
> Wouldn't let me log in..
>
> Marvin
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM, John Sechrest <sechrest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is going to painfull in the long run.
> >
> > Better to moint the /home2 partition as /home and avoid that link pain
> > On May 15, 2013 7:53 AM, "Marvin Kosmal" <mkosmal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Marvin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> > > > > Ken
> > > > >
> > > > > Good answer..
> > > > >
> > > > > I have always been terrible at those links..
> > > > >
> > > > > How do I do that?
> > > > >
> > > > > Marvin
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> > > > >>> Hi
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> My home partition is running out of room..
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I am a home2 and that seems work and mount on boot..
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I change home2 and home.   Computer wouldn't boot..
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> What did I do wrong
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Here is my fstab.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0
> >   0
> > > > >>> # / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
> > > > >>> UUID=ba7d065f-acbe-45d8-9e20-31a968791acb /               ext4
> > > > >>> errors=remount-ro 0       1
> > > > >>> # /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
> > > > >>> UUID=c2fde081-f707-49b8-945a-74385579e34e /boot           ext4
> > > > >>> defaults        0       2
> > > > >>> # /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
> > > > >>> UUID=cc988f90-e695-4e20-9838-83e93fd5ecff /home           ext4
> > > > >>> defaults        0       2
> > > > >>> # swap was on /dev/sda10 during installation
> > > > >>> UUID=168dd5fa-5a3a-47bc-af49-506dcdccc311 none            swap
> > > > >>> sw              0       0
> > > > >>> # swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
> > > > >>> UUID=c671c15f-a227-4060-91fd-1b1c5eda48d1 none            swap
> > > > >>> sw              0       0
> > > > >>> #  added uuid for /home2
> > > > >>> UUID=25e823d6-8b55-4c61-ad28-2e58afc46d44 /home2      ext4
> > > >  defaults
> > > > >>>     0      2
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Old home is like 2 gig  new home2 is 25 gig..
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> TIA
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Marvin
> > > > >>> _______________________________________________
> > > > >>> PLUG mailing list
> > > > >>> PLUG at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > > > >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >> Marvin,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Why don't you put it back to the original configuration.  Boot the
> > > > >> system.  Then move the diretories under home to home2.  Create
> links
> > > > >> from /home to the /home2 directories.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> original:
> > > > >> /home/user1
> > > > >> /home/user2
> > > > >> . . .
> > > > >> New:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> ls -hal /home
> > > > >> lrwxrwxrwx user1 user1 12 May 13 9:14 user1->/home2/user1
> > > > >> lrwxrwxrwx user2 user2 12 May 13 9:15 user2->/home2/user2
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Easy as pie.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Ken
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > Marvin,
> > > >
> > > > After moving all the files from /home to /home2.
> > > >
> > > >  From /home issue:
> > > > ln -s /home2/* .
> > > > This will create links for each directory in /home to /home2.
> > > >
> > > > Ken
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
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