well.... I am learning. I realized that I NEED to put the home directory on its own partition. Take that as a warning you newbies from the longest-newbie on this list!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">oh my GOSH! It worrked!....  unless it is mounting it wrong.... but I think it is because I had to make the directory /home .<div>

<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">well... I know it is mounting home.. I go to /mnt/home/bmike1 and my files are there. I know mount it to /home not/mnt/home!. Here&#39;s hoping for the best!<div>


<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4: PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">ARGHHHHHH!<br>I just restored my mint install and the restore is not working. I thought I archived it with it working. What it is doing: I login with my preferred user and enter my password and the screen blanks like it is loading the user and then it goes back to the login screen. (like before) I fixed this problem before but don&#39;t remember how I did it. <br>




<br>Michaels-Laptop ~ # blkid<br>/dev/sda1: LABEL=&quot;mint&quot; UUID=&quot;9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-beb5d83917b2&quot; TYPE=&quot;ext4&quot; <br><div>/dev/sda5: UUID=&quot;d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-1e531cedfd1c&quot; TYPE=&quot;swap&quot; <br>



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/dev/sda6: LABEL=&quot;home&quot; UUID=&quot;0b781dc5-1a6f-4e0b-8e9a-5777d6650196&quot; TYPE=&quot;ext4&quot; <br>/dev/sda7: LABEL=&quot;entertainment&quot; UUID=&quot;9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-5dd63fab9775&quot; TYPE=&quot;ext4&quot; <br>




/dev/sda8: UUID=&quot;901bb4e2-46ee-45e8-b6e8-7a89ad04587b&quot; TYPE=&quot;ext4&quot; <br>/dev/sda9: LABEL=&quot;backtrack&quot; UUID=&quot;b75029ca-b18f-4310-8800-916ef23ea3cf&quot; TYPE=&quot;ext4&quot; <br>Michaels-Laptop ~ # <br>



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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.<br>#<br># Use &#39;blkid&#39; to print the universally unique identifier for a<br># device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices<br># that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).<br>




#<br># &lt;file system&gt; &lt;mount point&gt;   &lt;type&gt;  &lt;options&gt;       &lt;dump&gt;  &lt;pass&gt;<br>proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0<br></div>#mint<div><br>UUID=9f55ed51-fe35-406c-865d-beb5d83917b2 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1<br>




# swap<br></div><div>UUID=d1b6c267-6e83-4756-b1c7-1e531cedfd1c none            swap    sw              0       0<br></div>#home<br>UUID=0b781dc5-1a6f-4e0b-8e9a-5777d6650196 /mnt/home/bmike1 ext4 nodev,nosuid 0 2<br>
#backtrack<br>UUID=b75029ca-b18f-4310-8800-916ef23ea3cf /mnt/backtrack ext4 nodev,nosuid 0 2<br>
#entertainment<br>UUID=9be45b98-d619-4a31-a951-5dd63fab9775 /mnt/entertainment ext4 nodev,nosuid 0 2<span><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br>:-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
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