reclaiming /home

dnial · 11-06-2005, 02:53 AM

After a reinstall how can I reclaim my /home partition?

With 'kuser' I add my user, and it asks me about the users /home directory, and if Im sure I want this...I answer yes, but it wont work so easily.

What steps do you take to accomplish such a task?

acid_kewpie · 11-06-2005, 03:26 AM

what does "reclaim" mean? please explain what you're actually trying to achieve. if you reinstalled and deliberately left your /home partition alone to save the contents, just add an entry to /etc/fstab and mount it. you may need to change either your users UID in /etc/passwd or the owner of the relevant files in /home/

AxeZ · 11-06-2005, 03:26 AM

umm, making it a separate partition!

dnial · 11-06-2005, 03:31 AM

acid_kewpie

I want to be able to re-use my old /home when I reinstall..

Right now I have many things in my /home and would like to reinstall leaving /home intact, saving lots of things like .Xdefaults and such.
This would save lots of time and headaches.

rkelsen · 11-06-2005, 03:50 AM

Read the man page for the 'chown' command.

acid_kewpie · 11-06-2005, 04:31 AM

chown is hardly useful yet...

well you can certainly just leave it untouched, no need to worry about that. I am not a slackware user, but you can certainly just ignore that parition completely and then readd it to /etc/fstab once the installation is done. if you on'y have a single user, then when you recreate them chances are they'll have exactly the same uid again, so you probably won't need to change anything other than mounting /home again.

egag · 11-06-2005, 07:08 AM

the " adduser " script will take care of it.
after adding the home partition in fstab and mounting it,
just run " adduser " and choose to use the existing home dir.
the script will do the chown etc. if that's needed.

egag