Hello! On 12/21/06, Robert Williams wrote:

On Thursday 21 December 2006 09:20, HG wrote:

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Hello!

I'm trying to move the home partition from /home to /local/home by using YaST and Partitioner. All I get is and error: "Failure occured during following action: Mounting /dev/sda3 to /local/home

System error code was: -3002"

What does that mean, and how can I move the home partition to the /local/home directory?

-- HG. I think it means /dev/sda3 was already mounted on /home when you tried to change its mount point. You might have to unmount /home first.

Someone more knowledgeable than me will be along shortly to correct me :)

Well... I'm doing this through YaST / Partitioner (and as root)... I would think it would know to unmount it first before trying to mount it again. But I will try to do it in two steps...

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I know, but I do not do that separator manually - Gmail adds that there. So it's actually a Gmail bug... used to work though (and for instance, now it seems to have the space there, let's see what happens when I send this...) -- HG. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:58, Bruce Marshall wrote:

3) If (2) is not the case, then all you need to do is to umount /home from its current mount point and remount it at /local/home which would require either Yast or Partitioner and should take about 10 seconds.

either should have been 'neither' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

HG wrote:

Hello!

On 12/21/06, Bruce Marshall wrote:

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On Thursday 21 December 2006 04:20, HG wrote:

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Hello!

I'm trying to move the home partition from /home to /local/home by using YaST and Partitioner. All I get is and error: "Failure occured during following action: Mounting /dev/sda3 to /local/home

System error code was: -3002"

What does that mean, and how can I move the home partition to the /local/home directory?

Like I said, move the mount point of home partition from /home to /local/home using the tool that I think is designed for this, the Partitioner. If you think I should not use the Partitioner (maybe you know it's broken or something), then can you please tell me another (working) way to do it.

If all you want to do is move the mount point of a partation from say /home to /local/home then do the following: mkdir /local (if it does not exist) mkdir /local/home umount /home mount /dev/sda3 /local/home You can then edit /etc/fstab replaceing /home with /local/home so next time you reboot everything is correct. Regards, Terry -- SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) -- 2.6.16.21-0.25-default -- Thu 12/21/06 1:15pm up 0:50, 4 users, load average: 0.44, 0.34, 0.30 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 21 December 2006 14:03, HG wrote:

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2) If it is its own partition, why are you using the Partitioner?   Unless you want to create a new and bigger partition and eventually get rid of the current /home.

Why am I using Partitioner? Hmmm... I'm trying to do something with the partitions - isn't that what the Partitioner is designed to do? To be honest YaST has many great things (and other not too hot) and that is about the only thing that sets SUSE apart from the other distros. All of them have command line, but there is a new generation of us linux users. I'm in the between: I'm comfortable at the command prompt, but I do not know my way around there that much. Partitioner is simple and easy to find. Why not use it?

But again, you didn't say what you were trying to make the partitioner do... The partitioner is to create/delete/resize partitions, none of which you have said you are doing... (yet) If you are not CHANGING your partition, all you really are doing is changing the mount point for a current partition. That doesn't require the partitioner.

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3) If (2) is not the case, then all you need to do is to umount /home from its current mount point and remount it at /local/home which would require either Yast or Partitioner and should take about 10 seconds.

I tried to remove the mount point in Partitioner. That fails with the same error message. Anybody know what that means?

I've never used the partitioner (and will refuse to do so because I don't really trust it) but I can't believe the partitioner is to be used to change mount points. It might be something that it will do, but it's not what its real purpose is.

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4) If (2) is correct, then I myself still wouldn't use Yast  to do any of this but some people would.   I would create the new partition.  mount it at /local/home   and  rsync or cp the files from /home over to it.

I'm trying to move the mount point from /home to /local/home as I want to import another home by NFS and NIS.

From a command line, while you are not logged on as a normal user: (logout of KDE and when the login screen comes up again, do a ctl=alt-f<num> to get a console session. Login as root. umount /home mkdir /local/home mount /dev/sda3 /local/home Tough, wasn't it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 2006-12-22 07:52, Kenneth Schneider wrote:

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 15:15 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:

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umount /home

mkdir /local/home

mount /dev/sda3 /local/home

Tough, wasn't it?

And don't forget to change the entry in /etc/fstab to make the change permanent.

Also change the default location for new user home directories, in /etc/default/useradd (Yast user manager can be used to change this). -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org