yonaton@localnet.com wrote:
Quoting James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>:
yonaton@localnet.com wrote:
As root, can you see /home? Or /home/user? Did you have /home on a separate partition?
I can see a 'home' directory yes, but there's no /home/user when I click on it. There's just nothing. When I setup my system, I had /home, /, and swap IIRR. So yes, I guess it was on its own partition.
If you can see /home, but it's empty, then it's likely not mounted. You'll have to see if there are any unmounted partitions and see if that's where /home is. If you find it, just add it into fstab and mount it. You can use fdisk, to see what partitions are on your disk. Then try any that are not specifically listed in fstab.
I do see this also, a 'data1', but it's also empty, no /user or anything. This is also what's in my fstab:
Actually, what you're looking for is the users. I simply used "user" as an example.
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hda3 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda4 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
Where'd this 'data1' come from? Should I do 'fdisk' in a console as a command? It won't mess anything up, right? Sorry for any dumb questions, but I'm just jittery as hell right now, worried I'll lose everything, heh.
You can start fdisk with a command like fdisk /dev/hda, which starts fdisk with the first IDE drive. You can then enter a lower case "p", to list the partitions on that drive. Any you find that are not also in fstab may contain your /home directory. You may have to do this for all drives. So, if you find something like /dev/hda5, which is not listed in fstab, try mounting it and see what in it. Also, make sure that /home is not in one of those /data directories.
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