Hi there, I made an incredibly stupid $%#&*g mistake yesterday (there, that wasn't so hard!). I had an extra partition that I wanted to use for /home so I set up a mount point and moved everything from the original home directory to the /home partition by first changing the name of the original home directory to home.orig and then doing a ' mv * /home '. Now when I boot my system and log in with my username I get the message that the directory /home/username does not exist. There is a lost+found direcory in the /home partition that hadn't ben there before. Is there any way that I can get my data back? -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I made an incredibly stupid $%#&*g mistake yesterday (there, that wasn't so hard!). I had an extra partition that I wanted to use for /home so I set up a mount point and moved everything from the original home directory to the /home partition by first changing the name of the original home directory to home.orig and then doing a ' mv * /home '. Now when I boot my system and log in with my username I get the message that the directory /home/username does not exist. There is a lost+found direcory in the /home partition that hadn't ben there before. Is there any way that I can get my data back?
Did you put the new partion in /etc/fstab? That is, is it mounted in the right place? Log in as root: root's home directory isn't under /home so you should be able to log in OK and see where it's all gone. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Did you put the new partion in /etc/fstab? That is, is it mounted in the right place? Log in as root: root's home directory isn't under /home so you should be able to log in OK and see where it's all gone.
Yes, I did put the new partition in /etc/fstab: /dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdd /cdrw iso9660 rw,noauto,user 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # End of YaST-generated fstab lines I was able to log in as root but I still don't have a clue.
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-- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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fountai@hursley.ibm.com
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yatsen.ng@brunel.nl