On Thursday 08 November 2001 17:10, Dexter Graphic wrote: > >Ralph Zeller wrote: > >Make sure you are selecting a type of format which allows for > >symlinks, that is, don't select vfat for the partition type. > > Thanks for the tip, Ralph, but yes, I am creating it as an ext2 > partition using DiskDrake. > > > So I deleted the new-partition and then recreated it (as > described above), formatted it, mounted it, and used tar to copy > everything in /home to the new-partition. This time it worked! No > error messages and all the files and directories seemed to be > there. Hooray! > > However, when I try booting off the drive where I created the > new-partition, with said partition mounted at /home, all I see > there is a folder called "lost+found" and all my files and > directories are gone. What does this mean? I ran fsck on the > new-partition and it said everything was ok. I'm ready to give > up for today. Maybe I'll try it all again tomorrow.
Hey, you get bonus points for getting your new root to boot with such ease! I'd say it's time for you to eyeball your new root's /etc/fstab and see if anything strange jumps out at you -- with special attention to the /home entry of course ;).
