On Wed July 8 2009 12:16 am, Shaggin Shea wrote:

>
> The sda1 mount point "/home" changed to empty after I applied the mount
> point "/home" for the sdb1. I tried to change the sda1 back to "/home"
> and it wouldn't work.
> Tried changing sdb1 to "/local" and then sda1 to "/home" but it
> wouldn't let me. I was able to change sda1 to "/"
> Tried to use the terminal like so
> sudo mount /dev/sda1 /home
> That seemed to work but when I reopened partition expert and sda1 was
> still showing as "/"
> finally for whatever reason system started to slowly degrade, tried to
> reboot and when I tried to log in it there was an error that
> /home/myusername could not be found.
> I also could not login in safemode.
> This was a fresh install (out of about 15 linux installs [4 linux
> distros], stupid ati drivers...I digress) and I am going to reinstall
> again but am still curious about what action I should have taken. If
> anybody knows what I could have done, please let me know.
>
>
Shaggin;
First, before you start changing partition mount points you should backup the
contents of /etc/fstab. This is the location of the partition mount
information used when you boot. If you break your install, you could boot
from the install DVD and restore it's contents, so that when you reboot you
will be back where you started.

Second, be sure you know what you are doing before playing around with mount
points.

Third, as long a you do not apply your changes (i.e. press the apply button)
in YaST, nothing will be written to disk and no harm will result.
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P. V.
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