Was running Leap 15.0. Made a backup (rsync) of /home. Tonight installed Leap 15.5. 2 questions: * how do I permanently mount /dev/sda1 as /home? Things have changed a bit since the last time I did that. * I had 2 instances of firefox in 15.0. When I start FF in 15.5, it has no idea about my profile. If I tell it to use what appears to be the correct one, FF argues, says I'm trying to run an old version and it will (maybe) corrupt my data and gives me 2 choices: make a new profile or quit. %$#@! How do I get FF to use my data: tabs, bookmarks, etc from 15.0? Oh, yeah - the 2 instances I had on 15.0? When I start FF it picks up the tabs from one (the wrong one, of course!). Maybe I am just tired but I could not figure it out so I'm reaching out. Thanks, Fred
On 2024-04-20 21:55, Fred via openSUSE Users wrote:
Was running Leap 15.0. Made a backup (rsync) of /home. Tonight installed Leap 15.5. 2 questions:
* how do I permanently mount /dev/sda1 as /home? Things have changed a bit since the last time I did that.
* I had 2 instances of firefox in 15.0. When I start FF in 15.5, it has no idea about my profile. If I tell it to use what appears to be the correct one, FF argues, says I'm trying to run an old version and it will (maybe) corrupt my data and gives me 2 choices: make a new profile or quit. %$#@! How do I get FF to use my data: tabs, bookmarks, etc from 15.0? Oh, yeah - the 2 instances I had on 15.0? When I start FF it picks up the tabs from one (the wrong one, of course!).
Maybe I am just tired but I could not figure it out so I'm reaching out.
Thanks, Fred
Settings -> Import browser data
Op zondag 21 april 2024 05:55:57 CEST schreef Fred via openSUSE Users:
Was running Leap 15.0. Made a backup (rsync) of /home. Tonight installed Leap 15.5. 2 questions:
* how do I permanently mount /dev/sda1 as /home? Things have changed a bit since the last time I did that.
* I had 2 instances of firefox in 15.0. When I start FF in 15.5, it has no idea about my profile. If I tell it to use what appears to be the correct one, FF argues, says I'm trying to run an old version and it will (maybe) corrupt my data and gives me 2 choices: make a new profile or quit. %$#@! How do I get FF to use my data: tabs, bookmarks, etc from 15.0? Oh, yeah - the 2 instances I had on 15.0? When I start FF it picks up the tabs from one (the wrong one, of course!).
Maybe I am just tired but I could not figure it out so I'm reaching out.
Thanks, Fred You don't give enough info. Show some output please. Like `mount | grep sd` etc
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Op zondag 21 april 2024 05:55:57 CEST schreef Fred via openSUSE Users:
Was running Leap 15.0. Made a backup (rsync) of /home. Tonight installed Leap 15.5. 2 questions:
* how do I permanently mount /dev/sda1 as /home? Things have changed a bit since the last time I did that.
* I had 2 instances of firefox in 15.0. When I start FF in 15.5, it has no idea about my profile. If I tell it to use what appears to be the correct one, FF argues, says I'm trying to run an old version and it will (maybe) corrupt my data and gives me 2 choices: make a new profile or quit. %$#@! How do I get FF to use my data: tabs, bookmarks, etc from 15.0? Oh, yeah - the 2 instances I had on 15.0? When I start FF it picks up the tabs from one (the wrong one, of course!).
Maybe I am just tired but I could not figure it out so I'm reaching out.
Thanks, Fred Reading it again, I see what the issue is. You should, during install, have imported the mount points in the Expert Partitioner. If /home's contents are on /dev/sda1 it should have detected that and reuse it. Your option now is to use the YaST Partitioner and add /dev/sda1 with the mountpoint /home . Save and it should be mounted at boot.
-- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Forums Team openSUSE Mods Team
On 2024-04-21 05:55, Fred via openSUSE Users wrote:
Was running Leap 15.0. Made a backup (rsync) of /home. Tonight installed Leap 15.5.
So, you installed fresh keeping the old home. That's not an "upgrade" :-)
2 questions:
* how do I permanently mount /dev/sda1 as /home? Things have changed a bit since the last time I did that.
No, they haven't. Not in this respect. Procedure is - assuming that the running /home now is a directory, not a partition, and that /dev/sda1 is your old home. 1) Log out from your user. 2) Log in as root. Yes, I insist. In text mode or in graphical mode. You can not do the following steps as user. Ignore anyone that shouts "you never do this" now. :-) 3) Rename /home as /oldhome 4) Start YaST2, select the partitioning module. 5) Find sda1 and mount it as /home 6) Accept 6.5) Exit YaST2. 7) Log out from root. 8) Log in as your user. Don't reboot, till you really wish to, normally.
* I had 2 instances of firefox in 15.0.
Not yet, your /home is not mounted. Wait till you do the above. When I start FF in 15.5, it has no idea about my profile. If I tell it to use what appears to be the correct one, FF argues, says I'm trying to run an old version and it will (maybe) corrupt my data and gives me 2 choices: make a new profile or quit. %$#@! How do I get FF to use my data: tabs, bookmarks, etc from 15.0? Oh, yeah - the 2 instances I had on 15.0? When I start FF it picks up the tabs from one (the wrong one, of course!).
Maybe I am just tired but I could not figure it out so I'm reaching out.
Thanks, Fred
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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