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Topic: tried to move home to other partition, can't boot, asks for password, nothing works

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eldepeche

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Posted: May 20 2006,05:15

OK, so here goes. I wanted to move my home directory to the second partition, so I copied the contents of /home to hda2, edited fstab, moved home to old_home and recreated the /home directory, and rebooted.

Now, I'm getting this error:

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bash: cd: /home/dsl: No such file or directory
su(pam_unix)[45]: session opened for user dsl by (uid=0)
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
-su: cd: /home/dsl: No such file or directory
Password:

My root password doesn't work, my user password doesn't work, just hitting enter doesn't work.

Any ideas?

pr0f3550r

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Posted: May 21 2006,10:41

Run mount and post the content here

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andrewb

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Posted: May 21 2006,10:53

How are you running DSL (hd install or frugal )?

I've not used an HD install but for a frugal install you'll need to use the 'cheat code':

dsl home=hda2

to boot & use the home directory now on hda2.

Note that if you have been using hda1 & have been using the backup/restore system to hda1 there will be a 'backup.tar.gz' file in the root directory of hda1 which will be used to by restore. The restore function uses the first 'backup.tar.gz' it comes accross, ,irrespective of where you told 'backup' to save data to. So if you select a backup location on a 'later drive (hda2, hda3,...) you'll need to delete/rename all instances on backup.tzr,gz on earlier drives.

eldepeche

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Posted: May 24 2006,20:01

I redid the HD install but this time I enabled the login on boot. I was able to log in as root and found that the partition with /home on it isn't getting mounted at boot, even though it should, according to fstab. If I login as root and mount the partition manually, then log out and log in as user, it works fine.

So now my question is, why isn't this partition getting mounted at boot?

The relevant entry in fstab is

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/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2

I've also tried specifically putting in auto as an option, but no dice.

tedmoore99 Offline

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Posted: May 24 2006,20:17

When you boot next time, stop the boot and edit the boot line. Make sure that you insert the following on the line: "home=hda6" This tells the boot loader that the home dir is located on hda6.
Enjoy!
--Ted

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