/home not found in /etc/fstab?

temak82 · 01-08-2006, 10:33 AM

Hello all,

I am setting up a linux server CentOs at home on an old machine. I need to enable quotas and remount /home, however, when I run the mount command, it says that the /home is not found within the file. I checked out fstab and it is not in there. However, I do have /home directory. Any ideas what can be done?

Thank you

Lenard · 01-08-2006, 10:38 AM

Show the output from both...

cat /etc/fstab

fdisk -l

Did you define a /home partition or is it part of the root (/) partition??

temak82 · 01-08-2006, 10:50 AM

Leonard, thanks for the replies. Will do as you said. Below you'll see the output. The partition I think is under root, not home.

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      28770436   1216504  26092480   5% /
/dev/hda1               101086      9067     86800  10% /boot
none                    159988         0    159988   0% /dev/shm

Code:

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30758289408 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3739 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14        3739    29929095   8e  Linux LVM

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Thank you

bobbens · 01-08-2006, 12:58 PM

Your fstab basically saying you don't have a seperate partition for /home, your /home is just a subdirectory of / (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00). Therefore unless you have a seperate partition you want to use for /home, there is no need to mount it, as it is already there (in the form of a directory on the root partition). I don't really understand what you are asking...

Lenard · 01-08-2006, 01:18 PM

Yep, you did not create a /home partition. You may want to re-install fresh and this time take the option to manually configure your partitions. This FC4 installation guide should help (very close to the CentOS installation process). Pay extra attention to the manually partitioning the drive with disk druid (Section 6 of the guide);

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora...-guide-en/fc4/

An example of partitioning (from my laptop) using disk druid;
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 20G 3.1G 16G 17% /
/dev/hda3 99M 13M 82M 13% /boot
none 470M 0 470M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8 11G 1.8G 8.7G 18% /home
/dev/hda6 12G 5.9G 5.4G 53% /usr

temak82 · 01-09-2006, 07:00 AM

Alright, thanks for the reply. I did do this automatically, should have done it manually. Was getting some error though so just did it automatically.

As far as this goes, is it possible to not reformat with a fresh install? Will this run and be able to create users under the /home dir?

Thanks

Lenard · 01-09-2006, 07:08 AM

You should not need to re-install, adding users should place them in the /home directory location. It does not matter if /home is a partition or not.

As root from the console or xterm session;

useradd -m -p passwd

See 'man useradd' minus the single quotemarks for the details and options.

temak82 · 01-09-2006, 11:09 PM

ok, thanks for all your help.