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#26 2009-05-26 02:12:05

karol
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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

dmartins wrote:

I think the partitioning looks fine, as long as when you say "sda6    Root       15GB    ext3", you mean your root partition (mounted at /) is 15GB and not that a 15GB partition is mounted on /root.

That's what I need the output of 'mount' for :-)
And wrt the rest of your post, you're of course absolutely right.

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#27 2009-05-26 07:00:13

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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

Im on a other computer ill post the mount output later but the /home directory was made bij archlinux installation it asked me if i want to mount any partitions after selecting the swap and /, i told it to mount sda6 as /home.

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#28 2009-05-26 13:13:11

karol
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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

slayeriq wrote:

sda5    Home   110GB     ext3

sda5 or sda6? Just gimme 'mount' :-)

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#29 2009-05-26 17:04:24

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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

karol wrote:
slayeriq wrote:

sda5    Home   110GB     ext3

sda5 or sda6? Just gimme 'mount' :-)

sorry i ment sda5 but this is the output of mount:

bash-3.2# mount
/dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
bash-3.2#

EDIT: I fixed it the owner of /home/slayeriq was root i changed it into slayeriq and now kde starts and everything works :D. I sure learnt allot from this thanks guys.

Last edited by slayeriq (2009-05-26 17:17:01)

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#30 2009-05-27 11:32:16

karol
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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

From the output of 'mount' I can see that you followed the advice you found on the net, and I see nothing wrong w/ that setup. You should run as root only when you have to, and use user slayeriq for day-to-day use. Be sure to read all the relevant information from the wiki, like adding user to groups so he can f.e. play music.
Arch is a rather slim distro so 15GB for / should be plenty. Hard drives are really really really cheap, so running out of space shouldn't be a concern for you.
You can periodically run 'df -h' to check whether you're running out of space on your partitions.

Welcome to Arch Linux, have fun.

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#31 2009-05-28 08:57:13

slayeriq
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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

Thank you karol, I will certainly have fun tongue

Last edited by slayeriq (2009-05-28 08:57:23)

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#32 2009-05-28 09:04:12

karol
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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

I suggest you mark this topic as [SOLVED] and open a new one with an appropriate title if you run into some problems.

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#33 2009-05-28 10:16:36

lucke
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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

You solved being new to archlinux?

Welcome among the competent computer users who know what they want!

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#34 2009-05-28 10:47:25

jack.mitchell
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Re: [SOLVED] New to archlinux

I'd even go as far as taking in what you've learnt so from your mistakes, starting from a fresh installation and follow the beginners guide line by line. It sounds like your going to have permission problems and files being all over the place which is just going to run into confusion and errors in the future. I had to go through my first installation a good 3 times before I got everything set up perfect first time without any nasty hacking to make everything work. It's worth it in the long run and its nice to have a clean system without any worries of remnents of old packages and dodgy configs knocking about.

Good luck with whatever path you take!

Jack.

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