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Eit

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From: Italy

Registered: 2010-01-22

Posts: 57

[SOLVED]Partitions not getting automounted at boot

Hi,
After I while I wasn't using my laptop I've made a full update (ofc I've checked for announcement for any manual intervention needed but there was nothing new). On reboot slim failed to autologin so I've switched to console to check the .Xinitrc file but, as soon as I logged in, the terminal output said it couldn't get to the user home directory because it's not there , and in fact the /home directory is actually empty. Since I didn't deleted anything of course I guess my home is probably not getting automounted or something...can this be the problem? how can I solve this ?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Eit (2013-10-21 14:54:26)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED]Partitions not getting automounted at boot

You should check if your /home is being mounted correctly.
Check the logs for any related errors.

Eit

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From: Italy

Registered: 2010-01-22

Posts: 57

Re: [SOLVED]Partitions not getting automounted at boot

I've found in the boot log the message exactly reported in this thread.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170898

And I've seen the guy fixed the error message warning about the root device not being rw, message which I've never sorted out becuase I wasn't getting any real problem out of that. I've read further in the topic and I've found the link to another topic related to the RW root partition problem

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=167153&p=4

However, modifying the default grub config and regenerating that (as in post #95, even if post #96 says it shouldn't be necessary anymore) does not fix the problem of the root partition not being mounted as read write and neither the problem of partitions not getting automounted.

I'm getting a bit confused.

Edit: changing topic title to clarify

Last edited by Eit (2013-10-17 21:12:01)

Eit

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2010-01-22

Posts: 57

Re: [SOLVED]Partitions not getting automounted at boot

Using UUIDs in my fstab solved the problem.