[Sussex] fstab and mounting partitions ??

[John D.]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 11:03, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:00:51AM +0000, John D. wrote:
> 
> > Well, I must have previously working in a home directory in the /root
> > partition, because as soon as I restarted the system, I now have all
> > the icons etc that I haven't had since I last had a working version of
> > mandrake (the give away being the windows app's that I previously had
> > installed under crossover office).
> 
> I see what you're saying now. If you login as a non-root user, and PAM
> cannot find your $HOME, the CWD will default to being "/". But as you
> now have /home mounted on its own partition, none of this matters
> anymore. You have all your files back. :)
> 

Yes that's about the size of it. Though I'm not sure whether I should
just go into the /root partition and trash the home directory there?

Then concentrate on getting the replacement customisations that I want
in my /home/john account?

regards

John D.
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