hi,
I am using Cent OS 5. I want to know the steps to delete my home directory and then again mount it.
Steps which i perform is

1- Delete /home portition entry in fstab
2- Unmount the partition.
3-Use Fdisk to delete the partition.

Technically i does not know that these steps are correct or not.For create again then should i do following steps

1- use fdisk and create new partition
2- Format the partition.
3-Make a folder with name "home".
4-Mount that folder to the new created partition.


kindly guide me,
thanks
garden

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...



You're getting in way too deep.

A home directory is NOT the same as the /home partition. If you're going to mess with the partitioning, be warned: have lotsa valium around

What I suggest is rename the old folder, create a new one with the old name and in there create the required folders (Pictures, Document, Downloads and what have you) or ... much better:

- make a backup of the user folder
- delete the user
- delete the folder if it's still there
- make a new user with the old name and settings

DO NOT mess with the partitions, for your own sake!

Wellness, I'll keep this thread on my scope to help further

Thor

Hello,

I would first like to ask you ... why you need to recreate /home ?

I would first check if there are any users having their home directory in /home. Assuming there no NIS/LDAP running.
you can always create a new mount point and point your home directory to it
regarding your steps ...


1- Delete /home portition entry in fstab - Not required, because you will eventually mount it again.
2- Unmount the partition.
3-Use Fdisk to delete the partition. - Perhaps you can just use the same partition and just reformat it using mkfs

Technically i does not know that these steps are correct or not.For create again then should i do following steps

1- use fdisk and create new partition - Not required
2- Format the partition. - As step 3 above
3-Make a folder with name "home". - The folder will already exist
4-Mount that folder to the new created partition. - It is mounting the partition on the folder ... "mount -a" will do the trick, because the entry exists in fstab

thanks for the reply. Actually i am i am doing all these in on of my free system for my own practice.Following are the steps which i take.

Kindly review it and check where i am wrong.
thanks
garden

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deleting Partition.txt (8.2 KB, 13 views)

...okay...you got me on the run wow, good one...phew

Okay..the error message means that fsck cannot find the /home partition...I suspect you (already) deleted it. It's possibly still in the fstab, but not on the drive anymore.

Okay. Now on to the rebuilding of the partition.
Find out how much space you've still got. Then, fire up GParted (live CD?) and set up a partition in there.

I'll fire up a testbox here to re-create what you're doing, this looks like fun!

By the way, if you re-partition the disk externally (Live CD) you may need to rebuild the Fstab entries...

By the way: excelent of you to practive this on a test system! Good for you!

Thor

kindly check the txt file as will in my previous post.
thanks
garden

Hmmm...the text looks okay...

But...if erasing data is what you're after, a simple mkfs should suffice, I think.

But, all in all do-able, at a first glance.

Still, my opinion may differ...

Thor

Look at this tutorial


http://http://www.linuxquestions.org...eeze_for_Linux