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| Thread ID: 32851 | 2003-04-29 22:13:00 | Linux: Sam or HDD spits the dummy..... | Clueless (181) | Press F1 |
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| 140109 | 2003-04-29 22:13:00 | A few days ago i installed a 120 gig HDD on Sam, renamed /home to /homeold mounted the new disk as /home I copied everything from /homeold to /home and away i went . All was good . This morning things were a little sad when i went to pick up the morning mail . Kmail wouldn't run . I had left myself logged in over night, and Kmail had been running . Everything seemed slow . Even bringing up "shell" in KDE seemmed to take forever . I ran "ps aux" and nothing seemed to be unusual, not that i'd really know . In desperation i rebooted, and logged in . . This is where things started to get really messy "cannot start KDE not access to $home" or something similar was the message . I can only log in as root, which of course doesn't use /home as such . Yast2 partitioner tells me the 120gig HDD is still mounted as /home checking the properties with the file browser tells me that /home is 20 gig and has 6 . 7 gig used . (?????? This is the original home partition specs) . Trying to open /home drew a blank, however /homeold (what i renamed the original /home too) is there and suprise suprise, this 20 gig partition has 6 . 7 gig used in it . Is this the systems way of responding to a failed HDD, or is there something a little more simple and/or repairable here???? . Clueless |
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| 140110 | 2003-04-29 22:21:00 | You did edit the fstab didnt you and make it mount /home every time didnt you? | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 140111 | 2003-04-29 22:57:00 | >You did edit the fstab didnt you and make it mount /home every time didnt you? I thought Yast would take care of all that, now it's getting interesting.. fstab says this about hdc: /dev/hdc1 /home ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 0 which is from when i tried to read a NTFS disk with Sam I'm about to change this to: /dev/hdc1 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 and reboot. good luck to me! .Clueless |
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| 140112 | 2003-04-29 23:30:00 | > I'm about to change this to: > /dev/hdc1 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 > What does the reiserfs do? I usually set it to: auto and it does the trick with my FAT32, NTFS, and Ext2/3 drives :-) I also set: Defaults 0 0 What does the 1 2 do? |
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| 140113 | 2003-04-29 23:42:00 | I have no idea what they do Chill! I'm just copying what the others were set to. It seems to work though, as here i am rebooted, back with us, and logged in as me. It seems that my Mail folder or something is a tad corrupted, as kmail is still refusing to run. This seems the only thing that is upset though. .Clueless |
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| 140114 | 2003-04-29 23:59:00 | Renaming Mail to Mail-corruped and then copying over my back up copy has kmail running again, i don't think i've lost any life threatenly important emails, so this will be fine.. and a good lesson on getting it right first time! .Clueless |
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| 140115 | 2003-04-30 02:37:00 | The "reiserfs" or whatever you put in that field has to match the filesystem type which that partition is formatted to. "auto" has a look, and uses the appropriate type. You must be using the reiser journalling system. ;-) The "mount" command (with no arguments) is a quicker and better (safer?) way of seeing what partitions are mounted than the partitioner. /home is a mount point. It contains files only when a partition containing files is mounted to it. |
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