Trying To Change Home Partition

[Brando569]

I have /home and / as two different partitions, I'm trying to make /home exist on the same partition as / (like it normally is). I copied everything from /home (/dev/sda4) to /home1 (/dev/sda3), logged out and went to a terminal logged in as root, unmounted /dev/sda4 changed the device to /dev/sd3, renamed /home1 to /home, and remounted /home.

I went back to KDM expecting everything to work and typed in my password, it flickered for a second then brought me back to the login screen. I tried to login as myself via another terminal (tty3) and it worked without a hitch. I restarted X via ctrl+alt+backspace and tried it again, same thing. I went back to the root terminal and stopped and restarted KDM, same thing. I rebooted the computer, same thing. I finally ran out of ideas and changed /dev/sda3 back to /dev/sda4, logged in and everything went as it should.

Is there something in the xserver that tells it to look for my /home in /dev/sda4 and not anyplace else??

[unutbu]

Please post

cat /etc/fstab

[Brando569]

this is how it is now (and how it was when i initially installed it):

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sda5 /media/stuff ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /media/media ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/mybook ntfs user,noauto,exec 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0



this is what it looked like when kdm wouldnt let me login, yet i could do it via the console:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sda5 /media/stuff ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /media/media ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/mybook ntfs user,noauto,exec 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

[unutbu]

Comment out this line from /etc/fstab:
#/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2

/dev/sda3 is mounted at / in the line that precedes it. You do not want to also mount the same /dev/sda3 at /home.

[Brando569]

duh! *smacks self on forehead* and i make another stupid mistake lol, thanks.

edit:i also had to take ownership of all the stuff inside /home/bran since it was owned by root.