[SOLVED] My /home and /boot partition show on my desktop; not mounted

stevenmw · 2014-10-15 17:06:21

I'm guessing these two fie systems aren't mounted and the computer is seeing them as separate volumes?

So I guess I made a mistake during the install. This kind of explains a few things because when updating my kernel GRUB wasn't being updated as if the /boot partition wasn't mounted. I had to completely reinstall GRUB to have it point to the right kernel.

Is there a way to fix this and get these mounted how they need to be? Probably something with my fstab file?

When I installed I mounted my root, created /mnt/boot and /mnt/home, then mounted those to their own partitions that I had created.

I generated my fstab and checked it, and everything looked fine. I just don't know why everything else is just fine, but /boot and /home aren't mounted?

My partition scheme is GPT and looks like

/dev/sda1 -- bios boot
/dev/sda2 -- /boot
/dev/sda3 -- /
/dev/sda4 -- /swap
/dev/sda5 -- /home

I used UUIDs if that makes any difference.

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Thanks.

Last edited by stevenmw (2014-11-06 16:41:12)

jasonwryan · 2014-10-15 17:15:50

Please paste your /etc/fstab...

stevenmw · 2014-10-15 17:29:12

When I go into it, it comes up blank for whatever reason. i checked to see if I had an old version with ~ appended but I don't. It was fine before.

Last edited by stevenmw (2014-10-15 17:29:35)

bstaletic · 2014-10-15 17:34:00

You can solve this in (at least) three ways.
- Rewrite /etc/fstab by hand
- Install arch-install-scripts and use gen-fstab
- Boot the install cd mount everything and use gen-fstab

In second and third be careful, and recheck everything maunally, anything missing should be added manually.

stevenmw · 2014-10-15 17:39:26

bstaletic wrote:

You can solve this in (at least) three ways.
- Rewrite /etc/fstab by hand
- Install arch-install-scripts and use gen-fstab
- Boot the install cd mount everything and use gen-fstab
In second and third be careful, and recheck everything maunally, anything missing should be added manually.

I have my install media in my pocket. I will try method 3. (At work, so it will take me a moment to grab a spare couple of minutes.)

Thanks for the replies!

stevenmw · 2014-10-15 19:42:58

All right. I did what bstaletic said, and performed option 3 of his suggestions. My fstab file is restored but now when I start lightdm I get to my login screen, login, and have a black screen with just a cursor. All I did was run the install media, mount each partition (starting with root first). Then I turned my swap on.

After that, I ran

genfstab -U -p /mnt > fstab

I checked the fstab file, it looked like this

# /dev/sda3
UUID=c2d39ee2-e1c4-4989-9937-91fad2951d67      /      ext4     rw,relatime,data=ordered     0  1

# /dev/sda2
UUID=9cd92417-c4c0-40c7-9de3-3b65b896e36b      /boot      ext2     rw,relatime     0  2

# /dev/sda5
UUID=db8633d3f-0cb2-49dc-9792-356ad37ace58      /home      ext4     rw,relatime,data=ordered     0  2

# /dev/sda4
UUID=00d4f1cd-cc6c-4dd3-B4c7-67da333205ea      none      swap     defaults     0  0

So I unmouted everything and turned swap off and went back into my system. The fstab file matched the output above. I started lightdm so i could get into xfce to see if the volumes were no longer on my desktop. However, now I get a black screen with a cursor. I let it sit for a while, but I ended up going into a tty and rebooting. Same issue. Black screen and cursor. I can see and login to lightdm just fine, but not my xfce DE.

I did try reinstalling lightDM and xfce4 and xfce4-goodies. Not xorg though. I'll try reinstallign it and see what that does.

Last edited by stevenmw (2014-10-15 20:01:51)

jasonwryan · 2014-10-15 19:53:16

This is a separate issue; look in your Xorg log.

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#1 2014-10-15 17:06:21

[SOLVED] My /home and /boot partition show on my desktop; not mounted

#2 2014-10-15 17:15:50

Re: [SOLVED] My /home and /boot partition show on my desktop; not mounted

#3 2014-10-15 17:29:12

Re: [SOLVED] My /home and /boot partition show on my desktop; not mounted

#4 2014-10-15 17:34:00

Re: [SOLVED] My /home and /boot partition show on my desktop; not mounted

#5 2014-10-15 17:39:26

Re: [SOLVED] My /home and /boot partition show on my desktop; not mounted

#6 2014-10-15 19:42:58

Re: [SOLVED] My /home and /boot partition show on my desktop; not mounted

#7 2014-10-15 19:53:16

Re: [SOLVED] My /home and /boot partition show on my desktop; not mounted

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