Well, it almost works. While it's booting now it says:

     Error occured while mounting nano

then it says to press S to skip or M to manually fix the error.

Then it goes to the login screen and if I try to login with my user the
screen blanks out and then resets back to the login screen. If I login with
root there is no problem. I just renamed my old home directory back to it's
original name  and it loaded with no problems. So there is an entry
somewhere that needs to be changed to point to the new home.I thought that
is what fstab did?

I googled the error (Error occured....) and the results were saying that it
is an fstab error and to remove the line that has what isn't mounting. The
other entries in fstab were erroring out also but I fixed those
Well, nano isn't in fstab so there is another problem.

#/etc/fstab
<file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-beb5d83917b2 /  ext4    errors=remount-ro
0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-1e531cedfd1c none swap sw    0       0
#/dev/sda6: home
UUID=8632cfc4-95b7-4206-a287-442c602362d7 /mnt/home ext4 nodev,nosuid 0 2
#/dev/sda7: backtrack
UUID=9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-5dd63fab9775 /mnt/home/backtrack ext4
nodev,nosuid 0 2
#/dev/sda8: entertainment
UUID=9a4d41b2-28c6-4907-8463-00d519a36774 /mnt/home/entertainment ext4
nodev,nosuid 0 2

<what does the line under  '#/etc/fstab' do?




On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:34 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:

> Man, that procedure is awfully complicated...
> My take:
> 1.- Boot from any live CD (This is ALWAYS a powerful tool!)
> 2.- Create a filesystem in your new home partition.
> 3.- mkdir -p /mnt/{old,new}
> 4.- mount -text? /dev/sdaX /mnt/old
> 5.- mount -text? /dev/sdaY /mnt/new
> 7.- rsync -va --checksum /mnt/old/home/ /mnt/new
> 8.- rm -Rf /mnt/old/home/*
> 8.- Edit /mnt/old/etc/fstab to mount your /dev/sdaY to /home.
> 9.- Boot your box and enjoy your banana.
> ET
>
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> Well this is fun: I'm trying to move my <users> directory to its own
>> partition and am having problems doing so. I followed the directions at
>> this page-
>> http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/**01/29/move-home-to-its-own-**partition/-<http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/->(steps
>> taken below)
>> On  my first attempt at doing this  it would get to the password page just
>> fine. However, upon entering my password the screen would go black and
>> some
>> text would appear then it would go back to the password page no matter
>> which user I tried to login with. So I went back in and fiddled with fstab
>> again and now when I try to load my preferred user it says it '[Can't]
>> update ICEauthority file /home/bmike1/ICEauthority'. I know what the
>> problem with that is.... /home/bmike1 is now /home/bmike1.old. In other
>> words it is still looking for the old directory.
>> What to do oh what to do! One more question..... why did the UUID of
>> /dev/sda5 (swap) change when I moved it? hmmmmm.... is it because I
>> deleted
>> it and then recreated it where I wanted it? Yeah... I bet that is the
>> problem.
>>
>> (steps)
>> 1st-
>> create a partition of sufficient size for your “/home” directory. You may
>> have to use that new hard drive, or adjust/resize the existing partition
>> on
>> your current hard-drive to do this. Let me skip those details.
>> 2nd
>> mount the new partition:
>> $mkdir /mnt/newhome
>> $sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /mnt/newhome
>> 2.5
>> Now, Copy files over:
>> Since the “/home” directory will have hardlinks, softlinks, files and
>> nested directories, a regular copy (cp) may not do the job completely.
>> Therefore, we use something we learn from the Debian archiving
>> guide<http://www.us.debian.**org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-**
>> tips.en.html#s-archiving<http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-archiving>
>> >
>>
>> :
>> $cd /home/
>> $find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd /mnt/newhome/
>> 3rd
>> unmount the new partition:
>> $sudo umount /mnt/newhome
>> 4th
>> Make way for the new “home”
>> $sudo mv /home /old_home
>> 5th
>> recreate a new /home by:
>> sudo mkdir /home
>> 6th
>> Mount the new home:
>> $sudo mount /dev/hda5 /home
>> 7th
>> Now, you have to tell Ubuntu to mount your new home when you boot. Add a
>> line to the “/etc/fstab” file that looks like the following:
>> /dev/hda5 /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2
>> //////////////////////////////**//////////////////////////////**//////
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
>> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
>> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
>> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
>> UUID=9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-**beb5d83917b2 /               ext4
>> errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>> UUID=d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-**1e531cedfd1c none            swap
>> sw              0       0
>> # /home/bmike1 is on sda6
>> UUID=46758120-c0c7-444a-a313-**b58168af05b5 /home/bmike1    ext4
>> nodev,nosuid    0        2
>> WOW! I just figured out that it is doing just what i want (in that it is
>> mounting /dev/sda6 to /home/bmike1)
>>
>> Michaels-Laptop ~ # blkid
>> /dev/sda1: UUID="9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-**beb5d83917b2" TYPE="ext4"
>> /dev/sda5: UUID="d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-**1e531cedfd1c" TYPE="swap"
>> /dev/sda6: UUID="46758120-c0c7-444a-a313-**b58168af05b5" TYPE="ext4"
>> /dev/sda7: UUID="9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-**5dd63fab9775" TYPE="ext4"
>> /dev/sda8: UUID="9a4d41b2-28c6-4907-8463-**00d519a36774" TYPE="ext4"
>> /dev/sda9: UUID="fcd01ca7-d230-4cbe-acf1-**200810245394" TYPE="ext4"
>> /dev/sdb1: LABEL="USB20FD" UUID="0000-0001" TYPE="vfat"
>> Michaels-Laptop ~ #
>>
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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