Strange Mount After Clean Install of Feisty
Bill Marcum
marcumbill at bellsouth.net
Fri May 18 16:00:15 UTC 2007
On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:50:21 +0300, Amichai Rotman
<amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I recently installed 7.04 (not upgraded) on my box.
>
> I have two HDs - /dec/hda (or /dev/sda as it is mounted now) and /dev/hdc.
>
> Both are IDE HDs. During the installation I told it to use the entire HDA
> disk and expected to be asked about the mount points later. It didn't ask. I
> had to manually add a line to mount my second disk (now /dev/sdc5) where all
> my data is. I created a dir by the name of Data under the root fs (/Data)
> and added a line similar to the one mounting the root fs (/) pointing to my
> second HD.
>
> Now I have a link on my desktop called "/home" and when I check it's
> properties it shows up as mounted on /Data...
>
> Looking at my /home/<username>/Desktop dir shows as empty...
>
If the partition named "home" is mounted on /Data, the directories
within that partition would be found at /Data/*. Unless you mounted
something on /home, it is just a directory of the root filesystem.
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