/home partition loss, after kernel recompile

dejavu_01 · 01-21-2006, 08:31 PM

hello.

On Slackware10.2, kernel 2.6.13. I decided to recompiling the kernel 2.4.33 in order to downgrade my system. But I found out that on the newly compiled system the home directory which is on a seperate partition is unmounted, therefor I can't login to normal user except only root. But back on kernel 2.6.13 everything works fine. How could this happened? Both kernel must've use the same fstab file mustn't they? Or am I missing out something?

By the way, this is my fstab

Code:

dev/hda7        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda1        /                ext3        defaults         1   1
/dev/hda5        /usr/local       ext3        defaults         1   2
/dev/hda6        /home            ext3        defaults         1   2
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0

Thanks

MQMan · 01-21-2006, 10:05 PM

Compiling a kernel shouldn't affect the loading of /etc/fstab.

can you mount the partition manually.

Cheers,
Eddie

kriton12 · 01-23-2006, 07:54 AM

Stupid question but, when you compiled the kernel did you add in support for the ext3 file system?

eelriver · 01-23-2006, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kriton12

Stupid question but, when you compiled the kernel did you add in support for the ext3 file system?

Looks like he must have, or else / and /usr/local wouldn't mount either. With all those partitions it looks like lvm, or extended partition support isn't loading.

shotwellj · 01-24-2006, 01:22 AM

This is probably a really stupid suggestion, but the fstab that you posted is missing a forward slash on the first line.

dev/hda7 swap swap 0 0

I'm sure it was a copy/paste error.

Jacob

kriton12 · 01-27-2006, 08:58 AM

Hmmm... this is weird, I'm almost willing to bet the /home partition isn't being mounted when you log in as root either. Root's home directory isn't on the home partition, it's under /root so you wouldn't have any problem logging in if /home doesn't mount.

Log in as root and see if you can access the /home parition.

Did you say you have no problems with access under the 2.6.X kernel and you can confirm this?

dejavu_01 · 01-27-2006, 09:45 AM

Thanks for all reply. I found out today that the real cause was I didn't include for support for ext3 FS during kernel compilation. Everything is fine and works normally now. :-)