I used partition expert to try to mount my second hard drive.
I already have suse 10.3 installed.
I may have made a small or big mistake, here is what I did.
I noticed that my sda1 (which suse is installed on) was mounted as /home.
I chose /home as my mount point for the second drive sdb1.
Once that was done I noticed that sda1 no longer had a mount point.
I tried to mount point sda1 to /home but received an error
Failure occured during following action
mounting /dev/sda1 to /home
system error code was: -3002
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.
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> 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.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
let me suggest that when you break it by playing around, that you try
to fix it by playing around…and, not bother folks who do not
consider their machines a toy.
Never de-mount a drive that you want to keep. You are effectively rendering that mount point useless. I’d just do a complete re-install, as in my experience, trying to recover a mount is like attempting to climb to the moon.
