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  1. #1
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    /home fails to mount

    Good Evening,

    So a few hours ago I opened up GPartEd from a live CD, and one of my operations was moving the /home partition up a little. In the process, it was changed from /dev/sda8 to /dev/sda7. Well upon the next boot, /home failed to mount. I edited /etc/fstab (and apparantly DropBox had just commented out the line that mounts /home so I have NO IDEA how /home was being mounted before) and still no dice. So every time I boot, I have to go to manual recovery and type mount /home before I can boot.

    Is there some way I can mount /home without making a "git 'er done" script?

    On a side note, Google Chrome has refused to open since the partition editing.

    Oh, and, in case it is helpful, here's the contents of /etc/fstab:
    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

    proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
    #Entry for /dev/sda5 :
    UUID=33bb50c2-a5f7-463b-8ac1-97bf7207d877 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
    # Commented out by Dropbox
    /dev/sda7 /home ext4 defaults,commit=0,commit=0,user_xattr 0 0
    /dev/sda2 /files ntfs-3g defaults,locale-en_us.UTF-8 0 0
    #Entry for /dev/sda2 :
    #UUID=AC702392702361F6 /media/Files ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=0222,nosuid,nodev 0 0
    #Entry for /dev/sda6 :
    UUID=4fbebeb6-b9ca-4e12-926d-3ffdf6853df4 none swap sw 0 0


    /dev/sda8 /home ext4 defaults,commit=0,commit=0,user_xattr 0 0
    Last edited by Vi3GameHkr; May 13th, 2011 at 03:38 AM.

  2. #2
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    Re: /home fails to mount

    Sorry guys,

    I don't know why I didn't catch the bottom line (which DropBox probably added). Thanks anyways I guess.

    Sincerely,
    Vi3 the stupid

    P.S. Chrome still doesn't start

    And actually, (in case someone else runs into the same trouble) I ran google-chrome from terminal and got
    $ google-chrome
    [3378:3388:354453528:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(1 54)] Creating shared memory in /dev/shm/.com.google.chrome.BMNt3S failed: Permission denied
    [3378:3388:354453626:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(1 57)] Unable to access(W_OK|X_OK) /dev/shm: Permission denied
    [3378:3388:354453636:FATAL:shared_memory_posix.cc(1 59)] This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm' to fix.
    Aborted
    and upon running sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm, it worked. No idea why that wasn't already set. Have a good night.
    Last edited by Vi3GameHkr; May 13th, 2011 at 03:47 AM.

  3. #3
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    Re: /home fails to mount

    do sudo blkid then put the uuid for /home into fstab instead of /dev/*** etc otherwise it will fail to mount everytime /dev/*** changes

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