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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

Congratulations!

I dont think that was the point though.

[giulix]

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

[JN4OldSchool]

Originally Posted by giulix

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]

Originally Posted by giulix

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!