[SOLVED]Rebuilding a Home Partition

AVW · 2011-04-13 05:48:17

In a tragic accident, including power outages and partitioning, I managed to lose my entire /home partition (although my other partitions were luckily untouched). What are the basic files that I need in a home partition for Arch to not throw errors at me, so I can rectify this horrible situation and get on with my ArchLinux related adventures?

Last edited by AVW (2011-04-13 22:41:40)

3]) · 2011-04-13 06:30:44

The basic files should be located in /etc/skel/

Basically, the files in that directory are copied every time you create a new user to that users home directory.

Hence-skel, meaning skeleton.

lives2evil · 2011-04-13 11:30:34

After a fresh installation, /home is just an empty folder.

bharani · 2011-04-13 11:33:42

lives2evil wrote:

After a fresh installation, /home is just an empty folder.

But when users are created files under /etc/skel are copied to their home folder.

lives2evil · 2011-04-13 12:10:21

Yes, but I said "fresh installation". So I mean you havn't do anything except login.
And in this case, /home partition is severely damaged. So best way is to delete all created user and recreate it. Much safer than copy /etc/skel manually.

AVW · 2011-04-13 22:41:06

Thank-you, that's all the info I need.

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