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dizzy0

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Registered: 2019-07-30

Posts: 2

Can't create mountpoint for /sda2

I seem to have screwed up something along my installation. I wanted to have / mounted on sda1, a /home partition on /sda2, and a swap partition on sda3. However, every time after I login, lsblk outputs:

NAME  MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda     8:0    0 596.2G  0 disk 
├─sda1
│       8:1    0  19.6G  0 part /
├─sda2
│       8:2    0   569G  0 part 
└─sda3
        8:3    0   7.6G  0 part [SWAP]
sr0    11:0    1  1024M  0 rom 

showing no mountpoints on /sda2
Whenever I try to build them using mkdir and mount, it will show up on lsblk, but my xfce session wont allow me to open any new terminal or programs, even though I can keep using the ones I already opened without any trouble. I'm running this commands using sudo.
What can I do to correctly generate the mountpoint?

Thankyou

schard

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Re: Can't create mountpoint for /sda2

Since your desired home directory has not been mounted on /home before, the respective files are now on / or sda1 resp. You'll need to copy the home folder from sda1 to sda2 to have your home folder available there.

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dizzy0

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Registered: 2019-07-30

Posts: 2

Re: Can't create mountpoint for /sda2

How should I go about that? using cp?.
Could that be the reason why it seems to reset itself after rebooting?
Thank you.

summerer

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-01-25

Posts: 54

Re: Can't create mountpoint for /sda2

You can copy the files using cp or any graphical tool of your choice. Don't forget to copy any hidden files you care for.
I assume that by resetting you mean your mountpoint of /home getting lost. For that you should modify your fstab under /etc/fstab.
Here (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab#Usage) you can see an example where /dev/sda3 is the home partition.