forgot to mount /home during installation

Christopher J. Bottaro cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu
Sun Mar 13 03:38:24 UTC 2005


Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

> Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> 
>>When I installed FC3, I forgot to set /dev/sda6 to be /home.  How do I
>>edit /etc/fstab to do this (i.e. mount /dev/sda6 to /home when the system
>>boots)?  There is a comment in /etc/fstab that says something about
>>fstab-sync...should I be concerned with this?
>>
>>Thank you.
>>  
>>
> I usually ignore that comment about fstab-sync and edit it anyway...
> Never had any issues...
> Just make a copy of the line that defines the root partition and in the
> copy , change LABEL=/ to LABEL=/home and the mount point to /home ...
> Then it's a matter of doing mount /home and it'll be available to you...

Cool, that worked perfectly.  I have no idea why it worked, but it did...=) 
Hehe, I'm just a little mystified as to why I didn't have to specify a
device...or why not device was specified for / and /boot.

Thanks.




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