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jacopastorius

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 134

mounting my old home partion used with other distro

Hi all! I have a little problem! i want to use my old home partion used with debian in arch.
To do this i mounted the partition to /home dir in arch filesystem using this string:

 /dev/hdc6       /home           reiserfs    users,defaults       0       2

But i can't read my home as normal user, it require root privileges resulting in no start of xorg when i type startx because it can't read the required files located in /home to start the xserver.how can i fix this?

fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: mounting my old home partion used with other distro

dunno if this helps but for proper permissions try mounting with umask=000 or something

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: mounting my old home partion used with other distro

Maybe the files are owned by a different user than the normal user on Arch. umask won't help: it's only for FS without permissions / owners.

You can use "chown -R <youruser>:users" on the directory you can't access.

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jacopastorius

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 134

Re: mounting my old home partion used with other distro

Maybe the files are owned by a different user than the normal user on Arch. umask won't help: it's only for FS without permissions / owners.

You can use "chown -R <youruser>:users" on the directory you can't access.

nothing..it doesen't work..i think i had to mount my /home during installation phase

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: mounting my old home partion used with other distro

ls /home/username/

chances are the files are owned by a different uid than your current user. you should need to chown -R as has been mentioned above.

Adding it during the install phase will do nothing to help.

Please post some errors or ls outputs so we can get more info

jacopastorius

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 134

Re: mounting my old home partion used with other distro

ok man!all right now!that what i needed was just a reboot
Thanks all!
EDIT: when i log in GDM reports this error message:

user's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevent the dafault session and language from being saved.File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users

what can i do to solve?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: mounting my old home partion used with other distro

What are the current permissions and ownership of ~/.dmrc?

jacopastorius

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 134

Re: mounting my old home partion used with other distro

What are the current permissions and ownership of ~/.dmrc?

these are the permissions:

-rwxrwxrwx   1 du users 26 2006-04-14 13:08 .dmrc