[TriLUG] fedora craziness

[Daniel Zhang]

/I guess one needs to add an entry in the /etc/fstab file, in this case /home,  for  example:/

/dev/hda6/ /home ext3 defaults 1 2

Next time you reboot, it'll be automatically mounted.

Daniel


Brian Henning wrote:

>Please submit all children-bearing applications between 6:00pm and 6:01pm
>EDT at the following address..  heh
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>Glad I could help, though!  Now there's a command (I think) that will update
>your /etc/fstab (if it doesn't happen automatically) so that those
>partitions get automounted in the future..  However, as you may have
>noticed, I've killed my nearest linux machine so I can't look it up for
>you..  I think it's a switch used with mount, so man mount and see what you
>come up with (or hope someone else will chime in with the right magic
>words).
>
>Good luck!
>
>Cheers,
>~Brian
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "dsandif" <dsandif at email.unc.edu>
>To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 1:10 PM
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] fedora craziness
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>>I love you Brian & I want to bear your children........   :-)
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>>LOL, thxs!, that did it!
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>>D-
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>>Brian Henning wrote:
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>>>What's the output of mount with no arguments?
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>>>What happens when you try to mount the missing partitions manually, for
>>>example
>>>mount /dev/hda6 /home
>>>?
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>~Brian
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "dsandif" <dsandif at email.unc.edu>
>>>To: <trilug at trilug.org>
>>>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 12:21 PM
>>>Subject: [TriLUG] fedora craziness
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>>>>I did a setup for Fedora core 2 on a dell laptop (Insp. 8000) I made
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>the
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>>>>"/" =8Gigs, /boot =100Megs, swap = 512 and gave the rest to /home
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>which
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>>>>was
>>>>14545Gigs. Install went great but when I tried to access the space on
>>>>/home,.....nothing is there.  If I do a "df -h"  all I see is
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>/dev/hda3
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>>>>(which is /boot)  and nothing else,
>>>>yet when I go abck into setup I see the following:
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>>>>/dev/hda1/       ntfs
>>>>//dev/hda2/      /
>>>>/dev/hda3/       /boot
>>>>/dev/hda4/      Extended
>>>>/dev/hda5/      swap
>>>>/dev/hda6/      /home  !?!
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>>>>What gives?!?, what did I do wrong or what did I forget?, the devs
>>>>aren't mounting, system say's that they are not there, the only "devs"
>>>>in fstab are the cd rom, floppy, /boot and swap. Slowly going bald
>>>>here!!!!!
>>>> thxs,
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