On Tuesday 06 January 2009 9:23 pm, John R. Sowden wrote:

Re: #2: The reason that I asked is when I installed a USB stick drive, nothing happened (it didn't mount). I checked the 'my computer' to see if it was connected, just not on my desktop, no soap. How do I mount a usb stick drive in a live suse 11.1 mode? I can mount the disk drive with the data so I can access the files in the live mode, I just don't see how to copy them off the drive.

Do "fdisk -l" -- it should list all the devices. Perhaps you will see something like "/dev/sda1". Also do "df". It wil list the mounted devices. Look for a device shown by fdisk that is not shown by df and mount that. Perhaps something like: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt Look in /mnt to see if you got what you are looking for. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:10 AM, James Knott wrote:

John R. Sowden wrote:

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On my last upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0, Suse installed the 10.3 root directory into my home directory, which I never noticed because I don't go there, until a few days ago when I decided to upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1. As I was deleting these directories, I accidently deleted my home directory. I don't keep much there, but linux and its apps do. Is there a recovery.

I've used photorec for recovering files before, but the file system wasn't ext3. If you were using ext3, you may find this site informative: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html.

Yep. Just recover them from your back ups.

LOL I don't think he'd be asking if he had backups.

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No one is addressing the issue of the fact that I cannot connect a usb stick drive in the live mode. Is this the case, or am I trying to do something that has not been done? The reason that I am using the live mode is because linux will not boot with the home directory missing.

Several responses already addressed the usb stick - check fdisk -l and dmesg to see if the drive is detected. The OS just needs /root, /boot, /etc, /proc and a couple others to boot - /home is only necessary to actually load your user's desktop. You can still log in as root and do whatever you need to do. Iirc a home directory is automatically created if one isn't available... as long as your /etc/fstab isn't pointing to the non-existent /home. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Here's what IMHO everyone should do: -have a separate partition (I call mine local) and link your home directory there (when logged on as root) -keep all your non rpm installed products there (java jdk's, tar and source distributed products downloads, whatever) I keep mine in /local/opt When you upgrade or rebuild your system leave that partition out of the mix and when its all up and working remount it as /local and relink your home dir. Using this technique you can replace your distro or upgrade/downgrade in about 2 hours. Beware of packages that aren't compatible withe the .hidden files in your home dir wcn John R. Sowden wrote:

On Wednesday January 07 2009 11:09:24 Nkoli wrote:

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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:10 AM, James Knott wrote:

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John R. Sowden wrote:

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On my last upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0, Suse installed the 10.3 root directory into my home directory, which I never noticed because I don't go there, until a few days ago when I decided to upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1. As I was deleting these directories, I accidently deleted my home directory. I don't keep much there, but linux and its apps do. Is there a recovery.

I've used photorec for recovering files before, but the file system wasn't ext3. If you were using ext3, you may find this site informative: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html.

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Yep. Just recover them from your back ups.

LOL I don't think he'd be asking if he had backups.

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No one is addressing the issue of the fact that I cannot connect a usb stick drive in the live mode. Is this the case, or am I trying to do something that has not been done? The reason that I am using the live mode is because linux will not boot with the home directory missing.

Several responses already addressed the usb stick - check fdisk -l and dmesg to see if the drive is detected. The OS just needs /root, /boot, /etc, /proc and a couple others to boot - /home is only necessary to actually load your user's desktop. You can still log in as root and do whatever you need to do. Iirc a home directory is automatically created if one isn't available... as long as your /etc/fstab isn't pointing to the non-existent /home.

Nkoli

Just to let all know, in case this happens to another:

First of all, I do not back up my home directory because I don't put anything there, except downloads, that I transfer to cd, etc. But Linux does put things there, in hidden directories. That was my problem re accessing the system.

Then I had an epiffany: Set up another user. I did that, then I was able to log in as normal, with one caveat: all of my data files that were accessable under the old name, were read only to the new name. I then used chown to change the owner to the new name. Now Linux is running normally and my files are accessale.

Thanks to all for the ideas. I am now going back to exercise the suggestions so I learn more about Linux!

John

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Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

I just installed an 11.1 and was surprised it wanted to delete my /home partition, make a new extended partition there and install 11.1 in that. I also have two swap partitions and two Linux partitions. It offered to leave those alone. So I am guessing it looked for a partition that was not swap or did not already have a linux installed, and offered to put it there. My intention was to overwrite one of the linux installs (Caldera 2.4!). Anyway, if I had not been careful, I would have lost my /home as well.

FWIW, my /home is located on a removable drive. So, I just unplug the drive containing /home, prior to the install. After the install, I just plug the drive back in and mount it on /home. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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No one is addressing the issue of the fact that I cannot connect a usb stick drive in the live mode.

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