[ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

[David King]

I had not included the  /home by mistake, but mentioned it further down.

The sudo mount did include

/dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw)



David K



On 01/06/13 00:52, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
>
> On 1 June 2013 00:33, J Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com 
> <mailto:j.fernyhough at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 31 May 2013 22:12, David King <linuxman at avoura.com
>     <mailto:linuxman at avoura.com>> wrote:
>     > /home is mounted on /sda7
>     > it has 12.37 GiB free, and it's 71.29 GiB in size (according to
>     gparted)
>     >
>
>     What's the content of /etc/fstab ? Your /home should be in there (but
>     it's not showing with 'mount'... interesting...).
>
>
> it might be, though he did state that he edited the output before 
> posting. I've long since been trained not to do this because the 
> people trying to help cannot know what was deleted and therefore 
> whether it was important or not. In this case we have no way of 
> determining whether the /home mount was mistakenly deleted or whehter 
> it truly is not mounted.
>
> (see the numerous rants on qmail-patch at jms1.net 
> <mailto:qmail-patch at jms1.net> mailing list from the experts about 
> people who read the now-defunct qmailrocks.org <http://qmailrocks.org> 
> guide and believed they understood how qmail worked only to be bitten 
> on the bottom and seeking help from the experts with piecemeal and 
> doctored information. Note: I still don't understand qmail well enough 
> to help others.)
>
> I learned this lesson the hard way, and I try to teach others the same 
> lesson when I see it done by them.
>
> re-reading the above sounds harsh, it's not meant to, but it is a 
> valid point that a lot of people forget or don't realise or ignore.
> -- 
> Daniel Llewellyn
>
>

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