On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:22:22 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > On my new installation, I have in my fstab: > /dev/sda5 /home ext4 > noatime 0 1 > > but on new installation /home doesn't mount by default, why?
What does syslog say? Is it even trying to mount, or trying and failing? > > On new installation, I created a user without "-m" > useradd -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash thelma > > added to fstab: > /dev/sda5 /home ext4 > noatime 0 1 > > but it doesn't mount by default. > xfce4 created new entry in /home /thelma > so I deleted the entry /thelma but manual mounting: mount /dev/sda5 > /home does not create directory /thelma manually under /home > > When I mount manually /dev/sda5 /home all data is there but but trying > login as user "X" gets a black screen now. Your user directory won't be created automatically when mounting. /home/thelma has to exist and be owned by the correct user. Permission errors could be caused by your recreating /home/thelma as root and not changing ownership. -- Neil Bothwick WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
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