F11 & home partition

[kraseef]

Dear Fedora Users,

I have successfully installed Fedora 11. It works fine with no problem what so ever.

My problem is that while using F10 I have created a separate partition for "home". I tried to use the same /home partition for F11 but it did not work.

Does any body know how to achieve this and at what state of the installation.

Regars,


Kraseef.

[SlowJet]

custom partitioning dropdown box- there are 3 choices concerning use freespace, use whole disk, use linux patition space only, and the forth is custom. Not hard to spot.

So you mount and format the other partitions (exiting or new) except for /home, you would only mount it and not change anything about it.

SJ

[kraseef]

Thanks SlowJet,

I have a different problem now....grub is not seeing my FC10. I have tried to help the situation buy copying the relevant lines from grup.conf that belong to FC10 and FC9. FC9 works with no problem, but not FC10.

Any idea?

Regards,

Kraseef.

[kraseef]

Help Help Help

My system is completely messed up now and the only destro that works is F9.

Any offers please?

[marklf]

I have the exactly same problem!

In a fresh installed F11, my previous /home was mounted under /media like a disk, and I can see it on the Desktop with the title "/home" ( yeah, even with the slash! ). I have chosen it to be mounted at the point "/home" at the partition setup of installation.

[marklf]

I reinstall the whole F11 with the burned DVD, and /home goes back to its normal place.

The above problem occurs at F11's installation from an ISO file in the /home partition.

[JN4OldSchool]

Why not just create a /data partition to carry over your personal data and leave /home inside /. That way you wouldnt need to worry about making / any bigger than what you need for that distro. You use /home as a build environment, download cache and, naturally, the place for that distro's .config files. You could leave these unhid as you dont really "browse" this folder very often, all your personal data is in /data. If you must carry any config files over to a new install just drag them to /data, reinstall, then drag it back to /home.

[marklf]

JN4OldSchool, you have a nice way to do this.

But, still, I want to know why this happened, for many people will install F11 with an old /home partition.

[JN4OldSchool]

JN4OldSchool, you have a nice way to do this.

But, still, I want to know why this happened, for many people will install F11 with an old /home partition.

Well, what I suspect is happening is if you do not mount your old /home when you install then the installer creates a new one, usuallly with the same UID and user name. So Linux becomes confused when you do mount the old one. You have to pay attention to user names, labels, and UIDs.

[giulix]

I carried over my old /home from F10 (well, from FC4 or thereabouts, for that matter) to F11 with SlowJet's method with absolutely no hassle ever.

[JN4OldSchool]

I carried over my old /home from F10 (well, from FC4 or thereabouts, for that matter) to F11 with SlowJet's method with absolutely no hassle ever.

Congratulations!

I dont think that was the point though.

[giulix]

Thank you my dear. That is the way to do it, though.

[JN4OldSchool]

Thank you my dear. That is the way to do it, though.

No, my darling, that is the potential for some buggy behavior. But...It is YOUR choice love. That is the beauty of Linux. Ciao. :)

[giulix]

You can cook pasta in a hat, but somehow it doesn't taste good.... ;)

[JN4OldSchool]

You can cook pasta in a hat, but somehow it doesn't taste good.... ;)

You can sit on an elephant but you will get an itchy butt! :eek:

[giulix]

Now, that is unfair 'cause I'll have to google it up...

Nothing came up :eek:

Well, apparently elephants have a saggy back that causes that itchy feeling when riding them (naked, I suppose). I doubt I will ever try that. In case you are going to try my solution, may I suggest you use your own hat?

[marklf]

Well, what I suspect is happening is if you do not mount your old /home when you install then the installer creates a new one, usuallly with the same UID and user name. So Linux becomes confused when you do mount the old one. You have to pay attention to user names, labels, and UIDs.

I doubt if it is a bug. I have brought with me this very /home from F8 through F10. It is no way for me even to forget mounting /home during partition stage of installation. Maybe you didn't notice that F11 had mounted the partition with title "/home". How did it know this was a /home partition if I had not chosen to mount it as "/home"? :)

[JN4OldSchool]

I doubt if it is a bug. I have brought with me this very /home from F8 through F10. It is no way for me even to forget mounting /home during partition stage of installation. Maybe you didn't notice that F11 had mounted the partition with title "/home". How did it know this was a /home partition if I had not chosen to mount it as "/home"? :)

Sheesh, whatever. I am just trying to suggest a way that would probably work better. It is YOUR problem, talk to giulix...I doubt it is a bug too, it is user error.

I continue to use a /data partition without any problems. It works for me. If you insist on carrying /home over, for whatever reason, then more power to you. I simply saw a thread where more than one person was having a problem doing this and just suggested an alternative, that is all.

[marklf]

Well, I just try to explain what and how I have done. Anyway, Thanks for your help, JN4OldSchool :)