forgot to mount /home during installation

Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH FL kd4efm at kd4efm.org
Sun Mar 13 02:36:50 UTC 2005


pedro, email me directly pls, I have the box on line and would like to see 
if you can peek it and see what
is going on....
For some reason I am not able to mount it at all.
i have ssh runing

Evans
kd4edm at kd4efm.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pedro Fernandes Macedo" <webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: forgot to mount /home during installation


> Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH FL wrote:
>
>> the problem I am having is I am trying to pull files from the red hat 8 
>> hd to the fedora drive and it keeps
>> bouncing the duplicated LABEL=/boot error at me and that's what I was 
>> asking for.
>>
>> the slash home thing was only being used and an example.
>> if I enter what you said in the mtab and fstab would I be able to mount 
>> the other HD
>> and pull the files over?
>>
>> EFM
>
> Now I think I understand what you want ;)
> If the error occurs after booting , then here's what you can do.. Edit the 
> fstab and replace "LABEL=/boot" with the
> real device. This way , the system will not try to do a mount by label... 
> Another possible solution is changing the labels of all filesystems
> to something other than "/" , "/boot" and "/home" for example.. I used 
> "/fc1" as the label of the root partition of FC1 when I reinstalled
> my system some time ago to use the test releases... To change the labels , 
> use e2label for ext2/ext3 filesystems. Then , put the new labels in fstab
> and everything should work perfectly...
>
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