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In a tragic accident, including power outages and partitioning, I managed to lose my entire /home partition (although my other partitions were luckily untouched). What are the basic files that I need in a home partition for Arch to not throw errors at me, so I can rectify this horrible situation and get on with my ArchLinux related adventures?
Last edited by AVW (2011-04-13 22:41:40)
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The basic files should be located in /etc/skel/
Basically, the files in that directory are copied every time you create a new user to that users home directory.
Hence-skel, meaning skeleton.
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After a fresh installation, /home is just an empty folder.
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After a fresh installation, /home is just an empty folder.
But when users are created files under /etc/skel are copied to their home folder.
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Yes, but I said "fresh installation". So I mean you havn't do anything except login.
And in this case, /home partition is severely damaged. So best way is to delete all created user and recreate it. Much safer than copy /etc/skel manually.
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Thank-you, that's all the info I need.
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