Mounting separate /home partition

Arm-the-Homeless · 2008-12-22 23:53:23

So I have a separate /home partition.
It's /dev/sda1 and a EXT3 partition.

How would I mount this as /home in the /etc/fstab?

tam1138 · 2008-12-22 23:55:44

The fstab manpage describes the format of /etc/fstab.

decaturguy · 2008-12-23 00:14:00

I have /dev/sda4 mounted as /home (ext3) on my server.

/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

sand_man · 2008-12-23 00:31:46

Arm-the-Homeless wrote:

So I have a separate /home partition.
It's /dev/sda1 and a EXT3 partition.
How would I mount this as /home in the /etc/fstab?

I understand that this is the Newbie Corner but this should have already been done in the Arch Setup. Or are you doing a manual install?

Arm-the-Homeless · 2008-12-23 00:52:08

sand_man wrote:

Arm-the-Homeless wrote:
So I have a separate /home partition.
It's /dev/sda1 and a EXT3 partition.
How would I mount this as /home in the /etc/fstab?
I understand that this is the Newbie Corner but this should have already been done in the Arch Setup. Or are you doing a manual install?

I already had a separate /home partition and when I selected it, it said to pick a filesystem.
So I thought that meant it would be overwritten.

fukawi2 · 2008-12-23 00:57:30

Arm-the-Homeless wrote:

I already had a separate /home partition and when I selected it, it said to pick a filesystem.
So I thought that meant it would be overwritten.

It will ask you after that if you want to create the file-system, but I don't blame you being paranoid.... It's your data, you have every right to be protective and err on the side of caution if you're unsure.

As decaturguy posted, modifying that line to be /dev/sda1 should be right for you

Arm-the-Homeless · 2008-12-23 01:22:07

It does ask me that? Lame.

I put the line (modified, of course) in my /etc/fstab and for the user I logged in with (andy) it automatically logged me out.

Is it because I had it `chmod 700`'d or something?

fukawi2 · 2008-12-23 03:23:46

Did you mount it or reboot in between adding it to fstab and trying to login?

Sounds like a permissions issue, but more likely that your users home directory is owned by a different UID.

Arm-the-Homeless · 2008-12-23 13:22:04

I rebooted.

And I found it out. My ~/.bashrc has `source /etc/bash.bashrc`. And since it doesn't exist on Arch's filesystem it wouldn't let me log in.
So I mounted my Ubuntu / partition, copied over the file, and now it didn't have any window borders. In Appearance it was bugging me about the Human theme engine.

I installed a new theme and it did the same. So I think I have some custom setup thing that depends on Human. (Obviously )

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Mounting separate /home partition

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