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Hello,
I has a huge problem here. I've installed F11 over Cooker, or so I thought, because I wasn't thinking when I installed. I had meant to just format / (root), and use what I had on Cooker's /home for /home in Fedora. The thing is, I forgot to mount /home during installation, so Fedora set up a separate /home, and now I can't figure out what's what. :\
I need to re-install, this time mounting /home; however, I can't tell as I said, what is what for sure, and also I'm going to end up so it seems that I'm now going to have extra partitions when I come back up (unless I can re-join the free space that Fedora used for its /home with the /home I already *had*).
Here is mount:
| Code: | $ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0")
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/myurser/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=myuser)
[myuser@localhost ~]$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0")
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/myuser/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=myuser)
/dev/sda6 on /media/722ae131-acf8-45e1-86c2-5d3efe437949 type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit) |
And, df:
| Code: | $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 12396968 6060116 5707108 52% /
tmpfs 513572 568 513004 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 63454760 51191220 12263540 81% /media/722ae131-acf8-45e1-86c2-5d3efe437949 |
The /dev/sda6 is what should be /home, not /media/whatever-it-is.
This is really nice, but I have to get it back to correct state, and do this correctly. What can I do here to get my partitions right again?
If more info is needed, please let me know.
Edit: Just had a thought. If /dev/sda6 can be re-mounted somehow as /home, that would be good too, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
Edit again: When I go to retry installation, it also shows a /dev/sda2 & /dev/sda3 - that's why I'm confused as to what's what here.
Thanks.
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you can edit /etc/fstab to mount sda6 on /home....
or you can use the bind option on the mount command, but this approach isn't permament.
`mount --bind olddir newdir`
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Will the "Lord's" suggestion do it for you DedannaRocks! or do you need more ideas? I have used the remount feature a few times and it can be helpful.
Ultimately once you figure out what is where, you can change your mount tables, your boot entries, and so forth to do what you intended to do but will this suggestion get you to the next step or do you need more? |
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| masinick wrote: | Will the "Lord's" suggestion do it for you DedannaRocks! or do you need more ideas? I have used the remount feature a few times and it can be helpful.
Ultimately once you figure out what is where, you can change your mount tables, your boot entries, and so forth to do what you intended to do but will this suggestion get you to the next step or do you need more? |
Yeah, I'm going to need more, explicitly what to do here. And, I do need it to be permanent - looks like I'll have to completely re-do users to go to the old /home folders, the works.
I'm not good with this stuff btw, so bare with me please?
Thanks so much!
Edit: FYI, when I pull up the install disk again, and go to the partitioning, it's seeing /dev/sda5 & /dev/sda6 as an extended partition within /dev/sda, and won't let me re-mount /dev/sda6 to /home. :\
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If I were to, how would I edit /etc/fstab?
Here's the current one:
| Code: | $ cat /etc/fstab
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# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Jul 18 23:08:02 2025
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# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
UUID=9431a338-1968-44d2-99be-bc17075b4a85 / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=254fd84e-bf08-4fe5-9f9b-081f5472272e swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
It's not even showing that partition (65-Gb drive, which is mounted)... ?
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there isn't support for reiserfs in F11?
that doesn't sound right........
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The big question now though is whether the kernel you installed for fedora supports reiserfs (I'm assuming reiserfs3 as opposed to 4)
In your shoes I'd be backing up the /home on /dev/sda6 with a livecd/dvd before going any further.
I'm a big proponent of 'universal' /boot and swap partitions, however, the minor differences between distros on how they set permissions on folders in the root filesystem always makes me wary of recycling /home - e.g. your mail app will need to be accessing and writing to files in /var and /tmp before updating your user's e-mail account in /home/user - there are way too many opportunities in that process alone for a single file or directory permission to cripple your mail app.
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| Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn wrote: | there isn't support for reiserfs in F11?
that doesn't sound right........ |
ext3, ext4, XFS that's all. If you need something else, you need to do it by your self 
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oh? is that all?
NO PROBLEM!
i gurss arch and gentoo/funtoo have spoiled me that way....
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Yep, jada's right - I dug a little deeper and came across this in bugzilla.redhat.com
So I guess the only options are
1. Give up on a reiserfs /home on fedora 11 - salvage data with a livecd/dvd and live with ext3/4
2. Try installing the reiserfs-utils package, check your fedora kernel for reiserfs support, and try a temp mounting with the mount -o bind suggestion from Lord.Dragon.Fly - if successful, make it permanent in /etc/fstab
3. Make your own fedora 'spin' which includes reiserfs support
Bottom line is that the fedora install media will be of zero help.
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I gave up on it for now, until I can get another hard drive to install it on. No reiserfs? No me. End of story.
Thanks though.
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