[wellylug] Re: e2fsck problems

[Damon Lynch]

It's easy to find out about your partitions :-)  please paste a copy of
the contents of /etc/fstab, if that is not too hard (can you boot into a
GUI?).  Basically if you see a separate line for /home, you're set.

e.g. an excerpt from my one is:

/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

this means /home is in it's own partition on the 1st hard drive.

If you don't see something like this, let us know. We'll advise from
there.

Damon

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 20:37, teejay1203  wrote:
> Damon,
> 
> As someone who is still trying to get to grips with linux, I 
> wouldn't actually know where to go to find out if /home is on a 
> particular partiton (I assume that you mean root home here, or are 
> you talking /home/<username>?
> 
> I've tried to mount /mnt/floppy and it comes up read only when I try 
> to copy these files.
> 
> Help!
> 
> Tim
> --- In wellylug at yahoogroups.com, Damon Lynch <damon at d...> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 19:57, teejay1203  wrote:
> <snip></snip>
> > is /home on a separate partition?  Could you copy them into that?  
> If
> > not, and if they fit on a floppy, you can easily mount a floppy 
> and copy
> > them like that (and in fact , you should be able to to do both for
> > maximal safety).  Can you mount a floppy via "mount /dev/fd0
> > /mnt/floppy"?   
> > 
> > You may like to use gzip to compress them first.  Try "gzip 
> filename"
> > first.
> > 
> > Damon
> <snip></snip>
> 
> 
> 
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