[SWLUG] More help getting this system working

[P.G. Richardson]

This link seems to explain the guts of fstab better than I could:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Regards

PGR

> Last night I finally made my upgrade to Suse 10.2.
> I backed up the data I needed to keep onto disk 3. Unplugged Disk3 so that
> nothing  could happen to my data by accident and performed the upgrade.
> I have a separate partition for my /home stuff so that I should be able to
> upgrade without loosing data.
>
> Unfortunately there appears to be a bug in the suse 10.2 installation
> system. It kept stopping with an error message when it came to mount my
> /home partition when I set it not to format it. Annoyingly it did this
> after it wiped the system partition and before it had installed the new
> software. It is fairly obvious from the error message that there is a bug
> because it seems to be saying that a mount command is missing a parameter.
> "Mount : you must specify the filesystem type".
>
> I formated the /home partition with the intention of plugging in disk 3
> which I have now done. However I cannot find it. I used to be able to go
> to /media and do an ls and all the disks etc would appear. They no longer
> do so.
>
> I don't know what to put into the fstab file at all as a result.
>
> Can anyone help sort this problem? So I can restore my data.
> I am working from the web mail again as I don't want to use the mail
> program until I have restored the data.
>
>
>
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