/home/MyDocs doesn't mount after repartitioning

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fromthehill | # 1 | 2010-07-18, 19:33 | Report

I found the space allocated to /home too small so I used this tutorial to swap the /home and the /MyDocs partition

I have succesfully created /home on the large partition and the device detected it as /home just like the tutorial said.

In the tutorial at step 5 it states that I should edit '/etc/event.d/rcS-late'
it states that I should insert the line "/bin/mount /home/user/MyDocs" after line 24 which contains "/bin/mount /home || echo "Failed to mount /home partition.". the problem is that line isn't there.

this is my fstab:

Code:

rootfs / rootfs defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /home ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=1,data=writeback 0 0
/home/opt /opt none bind
/dev/mmcblk0p2 /home/user/MyDocs vfat noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,utf8,uid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=100, fmask-0133,rodir 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p3 none swap sw 0 0

/home/MyDocs is in the fstab but it doesn't mount at boot
how do I get MyDocs back?

I haven't backed up anything from MyDocs since I had no files in there so the new Mydocs doesn't have any folders, is it possible the mydocs folder is detected the same way as the /home folder?

kureyon | # 2 | 2010-07-19, 15:38 | Report

[QUOTE=fromthehill;756031]

Originally Posted by

/home/MyDocs is in the fstab but it doesn't mount at boot
how do I get MyDocs back?

Does it mount if you do it manually?

Code:

/bin/mount /home/user/MyDocs

If it does, then

Originally Posted by

In the tutorial at step 5 it states that I should edit '/etc/event.d/rcS-late' it states that I should insert the line "/bin/mount /home/user/MyDocs" after line 24 which contains "/bin/mount /home || echo "Failed to mount /home partition.". the problem is that line isn't there.

The difference is that maybe that refers to a pre PR1.2 version of the file. Here's an extract from my /etc/event.d/rcS-late file and probably a suitable place to insert that mount command (obviously don't type the <<< & >>>!):

PHP Code:


			
...

    mount_home && HOME_MOUNTED=1                                            

                                                                            

    # If failed to mount /home and system has been already optified - reboot

    if [ $HOME_MOUNTED -eq 0 ]                                              

    then                                                                    

      if [ -e /var/lib/maemo-optify-firstboot-do-not-clean-home-opt ]; then 

        telinit 6                                                           

      fi                                                                    

    else                                                                    

      [ ! -d /home/opt ] && mkdir /home/opt                                 

      [ ! -d /opt ] && mkdir /opt                                           

      <<</bin/mount /home/user/MyDocs>>>

    fi                                                                      

                                                                            

    if [ $ACT_DEAD -eq 0 ]                                                  

    then                                                                    

      if [ $HOME_MOUNTED -eq 1 ]                                            

      then                                                                  

        if [ -x /usr/sbin/maemo-optify-firstboot.sh ]; then                 

            . /usr/sbin/maemo-optify-firstboot.sh                           

        fi                                                                  

      fi                                                                    

    fi                                                                      

                                                                            

    /bin/mount /opt || echo "Failed to mount(bind) /opt."                   

                                                                            

    if [ $ACT_DEAD -eq 0 ]                                                 

    then                                                                    

      if [ $HOME_MOUNTED -eq 1 ]                                            

      then                                                                  

        if [ -x /usr/sbin/maemo-optify-auto-opt.sh ]; then                  

            . /usr/sbin/maemo-optify-auto-opt.sh                            

        fi                                                                  

      fi                                                                    

                                                                            

      if [ -d /home/preinstalled -a -d /home/user ]                         

      then                                                                  

        rm -rf /home/user                                                   

      fi                                                                    

                                                                            

      if [ ! -d /home/user ]                                                

      then                                                                  

        if [ -d /home/preinstalled ]                                        

        then                                                               

          mv /home/preinstalled /home/user                                  

        else                                                                

          mkdir /home/user                                                  

        fi                                                                  

        cd /etc/skel                                                       

        cp -a . /home/user                                                 

        chown -R user:users /home/user                                     

        sync                                                    

      fi                                                        

    fi 

...

PS. the [ code ] [/ code] tags break formatting! so had to use [ php ] tags.

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fromthehill | # 3 | 2010-07-19, 16:08 | Report

it works
thanks