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mcmillhj

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Registered: 2014-02-04

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[SOLVED] After install, my home directory is only 100MB

Hello,

I just completed my first Arch install on non-virtualized hardware and everything seems to be fine. I partitioned my harddrive using this scheme:

boot:  250M
swap: 2G
root: 20G
home: rest of drive, ~475G

Everything seemed to be great, I install X and gnome then cinnamon without problem. But as I started to setup by desktop I saw an error "home directory only has 82KB of space left".

Looking at Nemo, my home directory has KBs of space left but for some reason I have a 474GB device mounted under /dev/sda4 (which is where my home directory was for the install)

Any thoughts on ways to repair this? Or do I have to start over?

Thanks.
Hunter

Last edited by mcmillhj (2014-02-04 16:59:21)

ce1984

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Registered: 2014-01-24

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Re: [SOLVED] After install, my home directory is only 100MB

During the install did you create the fstab?

Can you post the output of

lsblk

and the contents of /etc/fstab?

If you're following the wiki, you shoud have run

genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Last edited by ce1984 (2014-02-04 16:24:01)

drcouzelis

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Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: [SOLVED] After install, my home directory is only 100MB

Please post your "/etc/fstab" file and the output of "lsblk /dev/sda".

mcmillhj

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Re: [SOLVED] After install, my home directory is only 100MB

Yes, after I created and wrote the partitions I used the genfstab script to create my /etc/fstab file genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

lsblk output:  (looks off, as you suspected):

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0   250M  0 part /boot
├─sda2   8:2    0     4G  0 part [SWAP]
├─sda3   8:3    0    20G  0 part /
└─sda4   8:4    0 441.5G  0 part /run/media/hunter/e939dc16-13a9-4ab9-b2e6-0fa0503935d9
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom 

Where it says /run/media I was expected /home because that is where it was mounted during install

current /etc/fstab:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>    <dir>    <type>    <options>    <dump>    <pass>
# UUID=03eaf53c-907f-4333-9a49-6c1ab4402275
/dev/sda3               /             ext4          rw,relatime,data=ordered    0 1

# UUID=51d4b9dc-0ac8-46d5-8cab-776adac2d54b
/dev/sda1               /boot         ext4          rw,relatime,stripe=4,data=ordered    0 2

# UUID=51d4b9dc-0ac8-46d5-8cab-776adac2d54b
/dev/sda1               /home         ext4          rw,relatime,stripe=4,data=ordered    0 2

# UUID=d4c4d78c-744e-40dd-ba5d-a24b3ee13179
/dev/sda2               none          swap          defaults      0 0

Last edited by mcmillhj (2014-02-04 16:27:05)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] After install, my home directory is only 100MB

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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nomorewindows

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Re: [SOLVED] After install, my home directory is only 100MB

Yes, after I created and wrote the partitions I used the genfstab script to create my /etc/fstab file genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

lsblk output:  (looks off, as you suspected):

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   250M  0 part /boot
├─sda2   8:2    0     4G  0 part [SWAP]
├─sda3   8:3    0    20G  0 part /
└─sda4   8:4    0 441.5G  0 part /run/media/hunter/e939dc16-13a9-4ab9-b2e6-0fa0503935d9
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  

Where it says /run/media I was expected /home because that is where it was mounted during install

current /etc/fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
# UUID=03eaf53c-907f-4333-9a49-6c1ab4402275
/dev/sda3           	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 1

# UUID=51d4b9dc-0ac8-46d5-8cab-776adac2d54b
/dev/sda1           	/boot     	ext4      	rw,relatime,stripe=4,data=ordered	0 2

# UUID=51d4b9dc-0ac8-46d5-8cab-776adac2d54b
/dev/sda1           	/home     	ext4      	rw,relatime,stripe=4,data=ordered	0 2

# UUID=d4c4d78c-744e-40dd-ba5d-a24b3ee13179
/dev/sda2           	none      	swap      	defaults  	0 0

/boot and /home have the same GUID (according to genfstab).  So if you check mount you'll see that they've mounted over each other.  It also calls /boot and /home on /dev/sda1.  Just change /home so that it uses /dev/sda4 and it should work.  Are you using mbr or gpt?

Last edited by nomorewindows (2014-02-04 16:34:17)

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mcmillhj

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Registered: 2014-02-04

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Re: [SOLVED] After install, my home directory is only 100MB

Alright here is what I did to resolve this, after normorewindows pointed out the partitions were mounted over each other I copied my /home folder to /dev/sda4 and updated my /etc/fstab file. Rebooting produced the partitions that I originally suspected.

Thanks.
Hunter

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Re: [SOLVED] After install, my home directory is only 100MB

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