Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Hi, thanks for all your help. It's working now as expected. Fun fact: Had a small issue with the UUIDs, where I added a quote on left side to a system config file, but none was allowed there. Therefore (auto-)mounting failed (/dev/disk/by-uuid/\x22...) and it took some time till the system came u

Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:17:43 +0100 Hans wrote: > as far as I know, you also have to edit /etc/crypttab. Correct. Sorry, I forget that. "man crypttab". Do this before you run update-grub. > > If one has forgotten to encrypt a partition, the easiest way is, to > boot from a livefile system. Th

Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Hans
Hi all, as far as I know, you also have to edit /etc/crypttab. If one has forgotten to encrypt a partition, the easiest way is, to boot from a livefile system. Then backup the whole content of this partition to an external partition. Note, this should be a ext3 or ext4 partition, so you preser

Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:40:14 +0100 Klaus Singvogel wrote: > I installed Debian 11 (bullseye) on a fresh PC. > I created 3 partitions: /, swap, /home. > > ...and forgot during installation dialog to encrypt the /home > partition. > > - how can I encrypt the /home partiti

Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Hi, I installed Debian 11 (bullseye) on a fresh PC. I created 3 partitions: /, swap, /home. ...and forgot during installation dialog to encrypt the /home partition. - how can I encrypt the /home partition now? - In such a way that the password is asked for manual input during every boot

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
> which gave me some space :) > now to figure out why that was happening > using stumpwm and long sbcl error set > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:17 AM Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > On Vi, 12 mar 21, 10:45:22, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > Hi, > > >

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 17:42:48, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 18:13 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > My personal favorite: > > > > du -hx --max-depth=1 | sort -h > > > > You can use the short option -d instead of --max-depth, and make it's > parameter '1' come straight after [1], so

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> du -hd1 | sort -h > then 'cd' into a likely candidate directory and repeat. Hmmm here's what I do instead: du | sort -n | tail -n 100 -- Stefan

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 18:13 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 mar 21, 09:02:23, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0500 > > Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home > > > partition &

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:13:51 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 mar 21, 09:02:23, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0500 > > Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition > > >

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 10:45:22, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition filled. > > I then adjusted tune2fs -m 3 /dev/md1 to give myself 20 G of space. > Did nothing and next day already filled /home 100% again. Please sho

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 09:02:23, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0500 > Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition > > filled. > > I find "du | sort -n" useful in such situations. Start a

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0500 Mitchell Laks wrote: > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition > filled. I find "du | sort -n" useful in such situations. Start at /home and work your way down. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://c

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread songbird
Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition filled. > > I then adjusted tune2fs -m 3 /dev/md1 to give myself 20 G of space. > Did nothing and next day already filled /home 100% again. > Same thing happened when i did -m

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread IL Ka
> > tried du -sh on /home/username /* etc. > and what was the output? I use $ du -d1 | sort -n Also, try "ncdu".

/home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition filled. I then adjusted tune2fs -m 3 /dev/md1 to give myself 20 G of space. Did nothing and next day already filled /home 100% again. Same thing happened when i did -m2. Ok how to find the culprit ? A long long time ago

Re: Fwd: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-06-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 May 2019 at 14:13:42 (+0300), Sergey Belyashov wrote: > As expected nothing is changed. I did not forget to run update-initramfs > after change of fstab. > Attached 3 photos: normal boot, recovery boot before pasword enter, > recovery boot after password and Ctrl-D in recovery shell. [I

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-30 Thread Sergey Belyashov
I have found related bug in the Debian bug system: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868164 пн, 27 мая 2019 г. в 13:09, Sergey Belyashov : > I have system with soft raid and /home is encrypted (luks with password). > When I boot it using default boot kernel options (ro quiet) syst

Re: Fwd: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-29 Thread Sergey Belyashov
I have examine initramfs image and found that it is not tries to mount encrypted partitions other than root. Moreover, it is confirmed by dmesg output: systemd starts before mounting of /var and /home So it is not initrd problem. Problem somethere in system. Best regards, Sergey Belyashov вт, 28

Re: Fwd: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-28 Thread deloptes
Sergey Belyashov wrote: > As expected nothing is changed. I did not forget to run update-initramfs > after change of fstab. > Attached 3 photos: normal boot, recovery boot before pasword enter, > recovery boot after password and Ctrl-D in recovery shell. I am not a systemd expert. The images does

Fwd: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-28 Thread Sergey Belyashov
As expected nothing is changed. I did not forget to run update-initramfs after change of fstab. Attached 3 photos: normal boot, recovery boot before pasword enter, recovery boot after password and Ctrl-D in recovery shell. Best regards, Sergey Belyashov вт, 28 мая 2019 г., 9:38 deloptes : > Serg

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-28 Thread Sergey Belyashov
I'll try your suggestion. But I think problem is not here. Password ask is after mounting all other filesystems, swapon and flush of journald: [9.986320] intel_rapl: Found RAPL domain uncore [ 10.203636] EXT4-fs (md0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 10.203981]

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread deloptes
Sergey Belyashov wrote: > Root partition is on mdraid but is not encrypted. Home is encrypted only. > Modules are set to most already. > I have this setup on my server, but I removed all crypted entries from fstab because obviously I can not sit infront of the server to type the password when bo

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread Sergey Belyashov
Root partition is on mdraid but is not encrypted. Home is encrypted only. Modules are set to most already. вт, 28 мая 2019 г., 9:06 deloptes : > Sergey Belyashov wrote: > > > My problem is about than year old or more. With default options (without > > plymouth) only information about root partiti

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread deloptes
Ross Boylan wrote: > I've discovered that if I type my pass-phrase (waiting long enough > that I think things have settled down), the system boots. > Have you tried setting up the display parameters properly in grub? Sometimes on notebooks the default settings are different and do not match pred

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread deloptes
Sergey Belyashov wrote: > My problem is about than year old or more. With default options (without > plymouth) only information about root partition mount or fsck. Later it > replaced by partition waiting "progress" (moving red asterisks). I have > try to wait about a minute and try to enter luks

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread Sergey Belyashov
My problem is about than year old or more. With default options (without plymouth) only information about root partition mount or fsck. Later it replaced by partition waiting "progress" (moving red asterisks). I have try to wait about a minute and try to enter luks password, but no any changes. I t

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread Ross Boylan
For at least the last couple of weeks I've had the screen go completely blank during bootup, after displaying initial messages (I changed from "quiet" to "debug" for kernel startup). This is with a luks encrypted root. I saw it under jessie and buster. I blamed failing hardware (I can't get into

Fwd: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread Sergey Belyashov
I have system with soft raid and /home is encrypted (one of raid1 partitions is encrypted using luks with password). When I boot it using default boot kernel options (ro quiet) systemd stops on waiting for partition, but no any password prompt. I try to boot with plymouth (ro quiet splash), but it

Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread Sergey Belyashov
I have system with soft raid and /home is encrypted (luks with password). When I boot it using default boot kernel options (ro quiet) systemd stops on waiting for partition, but no any password prompt. I try to boot with plymouth (ro quiet splash), but it does not help me. I may boot only using "re

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 1/12/18 6:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: >>I often see people recommend a separate home partition.  >>But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within >>the root director

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Dec 2018 at 12:22:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2018 10:02:29 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 08:39:55PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 11:23:57 (-1000), Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > Cliff's Notes Version Part I: Flaky USB connections are an important > > > factor! An accidentally disconnected USB connect

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 01 December 2018 10:02:29 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: > > > >Because if your root partition

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Dec 2018 at 10:02:29 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: > > > >Because if your root partition

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, December 01, 2018 02:54:22 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/12/2018 à 03:21, Ric Moore a écrit : > > On 11/30/18 8:45 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Why bother with /opt -- iirc, /opt is for optional software, not user > >> data. > > Right. > > > True true, but you may select th

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: > > >Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your > > > > > > files are safe on their

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Curt
On 2018-12-01, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Opinions, please. > > I dislike top posting. That isn't an opinion. This is an opinion. -- He used sentences differently from any other prose writer. He always sounded like a slightly drunk man who is very melancholy, who has no illusions about life,

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/30/2018 09:22 AM, Hans wrote: Am Freitag, 30. November 2018, 18:14:40 CET schrieb Default User: When you are using a seperate home-partition you can easily install the whole system new - and all user specific content will be saved and will not have to configured by the user(s) again

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/12/2018 à 03:21, Ric Moore a écrit : On 11/30/18 8:45 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Why bother with /opt -- iirc, /opt is for optional software, not user data. Right. True true, but you may select the /opt partition from the install menu and not re-format it. You can select arbitra

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 21:21:50 (-0500), Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/30/18 8:45 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, November 30, 2018 08:32:23 PM Ric Moore wrote: > > > Cindy, I advocate using /opt for that very reason. I leave /home/user > > > alone. I create /opt/user directory and fill it w

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 11:23:57 (-1000), Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Cliff's Notes Version Part I: Flaky USB connections are an important > > factor! An accidentally disconnected USB connection can cause data to > > become *unknowingly* redirected back to the

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:26:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > If you are going to put you /home on a separate partition, put it > on a different disk. > > Unfortunately that has NOT been acceptable to the installer for most of a > decade now. Strange, I've been putting /home on a differen

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/30/18 8:45 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, November 30, 2018 08:32:23 PM Ric Moore wrote: On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 12:23:11 (-0500), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: > >I often see people recommend a separate home partition.  > >But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within > >

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, November 30, 2018 08:32:23 PM Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my > > /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those > > (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al) each remaining as their own separ

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al) each remaining as their own separate directories on a secondary partition. Fstab would then be asked t

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: > >Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your > > files are safe on their own partition... > > ...leaving open the question of how likely that scen

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Cliff's Notes Version Part I: Flaky USB connections are an important > factor! An accidentally disconnected USB connection can cause data to > become *unknowingly* redirected back to the original directory on the > primary partition. That situation can

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 02:14:09PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Michael Stone composed on 2018-11-30 13:58 (UTC-0500): On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files are safe on their own partition...

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/30/18, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: >>I often see people recommend a separate home partition. >>But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory >> within >>the root directo

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Stone composed on 2018-11-30 13:58 (UTC-0500): > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: >>Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files >>are safe on their own partition... > ...leaving open the question of how likely that scenario

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files are safe on their own partition... ...leaving open the question of how likely that scenario is.

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Thompson
Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files are safe on their own partition... > On 30 Nov 2018, at 17:14, Default User wrote: > > > I often see people recommend a separate home partition. > > But why would (or not) that be better than jus

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: >I often see people recommend a separate home partition.  >But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within >the root directory? >Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and the

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 30. November 2018, 18:14:40 CET schrieb Default User: When you are using a seperate home-partition you can easily install the whole system new - and all user specific content will be saved and will not have to configured by the user(s) again. In case, you have no backup from the

[OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Default User
I often see people recommend a separate home partition. But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within the root directory? Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and therefore (all other things being equal) better? Opinions, please.

Re: how to add a /home partition

2017-11-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 12:33:48AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 22:34:02 +0100 > wrote: > > > > > - copy the contents of /home to its future location: > (...) > > or cp -a /home/* /mnt > > to be nitpicking, should

Re: how to add a /home partition

2017-11-03 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 22:34:02 +0100 wrote: > > - copy the contents of /home to its future location: (...) > or cp -a /home/* /mnt to be nitpicking, shouldn't this rather be cp -a /home/. /mnt just to cover the (admittedly unlikely) case there is some hidden file or folder in

(solved) Re: how to add a /home partition

2017-11-03 Thread Long Wind
Thank Pol Hallen and to...@tuxteam.de! tomas's instruction is detailed and professional, many thanks! On Friday, November 3, 2017 5:34 PM, "to...@tuxteam.de" wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:06:28PM +, Long Wind wrote: > i have

Re: how to add a /home partition

2017-11-03 Thread Pol Hallen
i have installed wheezy at /dev/sda3, no swap disk space isn't enough now i want to add /dev/sda4 as /home partition but how to do it? Thanks! mkfs.ext4 -v /dev/sda4 login from shell (no xorg) with root and mount sda4 to /home2, copy /home to /home2, rm home and rename home2 to home Pol

Re: how to add a /home partition

2017-11-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:06:28PM +, Long Wind wrote: > i have installed wheezy at /dev/sda3, no swapdisk space isn't enough nowi > want to add /dev/sda4 as /home partitionbut how to do it? Thanks! First, take a backup. Things tend to go wrong i

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-11 Thread Ken Heard
. Those instructions unfortunately did not tell me that the crypt has to be resized as well as the file system and the logical volume. The result was that the all the data in the /home partition were obliterated. Fortunately I had backed up all of them. The new encrypted /home partition that I

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:02:02 -0400 Ken Heard wrote: > On 2015-06-10 13:17, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > >> After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a > >> list of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I > >> thought it would

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-10 Thread Ken Heard
On 2015-06-10 13:17, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote: After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a list of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I thought it would be a simple matter of changing the relevant UUID to the current one. It

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a list > of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I thought it > would be a simple matter of changing the relevant UUID to the current > one. It is apparently not. Did you rebuild

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 13:37 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > On 2015-06-09 11:18, Ken Heard wrote: > > For reasons which I won't go into now my encrypted home partition was > > obliterated. (Yes, all the data thereon had been backed up.) I created > > a new one, but of course

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-09 Thread Ken Heard
On 2015-06-09 11:18, Ken Heard wrote: For reasons which I won't go into now my encrypted home partition was obliterated. (Yes, all the data thereon had been backed up.) I created a new one, but of course it does not have the same UUID as the previous one. Jessie's systemd howev

Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-09 Thread Ken Heard
For reasons which I won't go into now my encrypted home partition was obliterated. (Yes, all the data thereon had been backed up.) I created a new one, but of course it does not have the same UUID as the previous one. Jessie's systemd however on boot continues to look for the ol

Re: was firefox-37, where to put now moving home partition

2015-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:33:00 Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/03/2015 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is booting with the single option on the kernels command line > > insufficient for this scenario? > > Gene, when you first boot, boot into rescue mode and login as root. > now /home is nicely idl

was firefox-37, where to put now moving home partition

2015-04-03 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/03/2015 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Is booting with the single option on the kernels command line insufficient for this scenario? Gene, when you first boot, boot into rescue mode and login as root. now /home is nicely idle, after you have installed the 3rd new drive and have partitione

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-26 Thread Dan
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dan wrote: >> - Backup home and the files from /etc passwd, group, shadow and gshadow >> ... >> - merge the old passwd, group, shadow and gshadow with the new files >> found in /etc > > You so far have three votes against doing this but I will v

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Dan wrote: > - Backup home and the files from /etc passwd, group, shadow and gshadow > ... > - merge the old passwd, group, shadow and gshadow with the new files > found in /etc You so far have three votes against doing this but I will vote *for* doing it. I think this is okay. It all depends up

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Jeu 25 avril 2013 12:54, Dan a écrit : > Hi, > > > As I explained in a previous email I had an issue with the ATI driver > and squeeze and I decided to wipe squeeze and install wheezy. Luckily the > home partition is separated from the rest. > > Which would be the best

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc
installation process. I did it during my laptop re-install'. To avoid to copy data from backup and to save time. I do not have any ref to the doc' and currently no time to search for but take a look at the doc', it can be helpful if you want to keep your /home and the data on it as i

Re: Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
ncluded to the / directory, instead of an additional partition. After installation you can remove /home and mount the home partition instead, by /etc/fstab. I prefer to keep everything within / and don't use a separated /home, so I have to copy an old /home, resp. I only copy emails and

Install debian from scratch and keep a home partition

2013-04-25 Thread Dan
Hi, As I explained in a previous email I had an issue with the ATI driver and squeeze and I decided to wipe squeeze and install wheezy. Luckily the home partition is separated from the rest. Which would be the best way to proceed? I was going to do the following: - Backup home and the files

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 5:28 am, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2012 12:05:32 Weaver wrote: >> That's with reinstalling with the stable disc of the time, then >> upgrading >> all the way back up to unstable. >> No back up. >> Nothing! > > Ouch!! You obviously enjoy playing Russian roule

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
ions. Thus, I have finally decided > to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then possibly even to Debian sid, > which I have already used for some time as the aptosid > distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is > that **advisable** or should I delete this partition a

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Camaleón
have finally decided to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then > possibly even to Debian sid, which I have already used for some time as > the aptosid distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home > partition. Is that **advisable** or should I delete this partition as > well

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 08 September 2012 12:05:32 Weaver wrote: > That's with reinstalling with the stable disc of the time, then upgrading > all the way back up to unstable. > No back up. > Nothing! Ouch!! You obviously enjoy playing Russian roulette! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
e aptosid >>> distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is >>> that **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well? >> >> No, you can do that. >> The facility to have the /home partition specified, in a new install, is >>

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Fri, September 7, 2012 5:33 pm, Mauricio Calvao wrote: >> to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then possibly even to Debian sid, >> which I have already used for some time as the aptosid >> distribution. I would like however to preserve

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread lee
distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is > that **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well? You can keep your home partition as is. It is advisable to put everything on at least a RAID-1 as it improves your chances to survive disk failures. In any case,

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread Weaver
ions. Thus, I have finally decided > to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then possibly even to Debian sid, > which I have already used for some time as the aptosid > distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is > that **advisable** or should I delete this partition

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:33:15 -0300, Mauricio Calvao wrote: > I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is that > **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well? Depending on how much version dependant stuff you put there. I personally never put any version dependant

new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread Mauricio Calvao
to Debian sid, which I have already used for some time as the aptosid distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is that **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well? Thanks in advance! -- ### Prof. Mauricio Ortiz Calvao

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Scott
Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:10:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: /dev/hda10 4366 4870 4056381 83 Linux To me the problem is clearly about the file system not the partition. This seems like an interesting problem. I'm still mostly convinced it is actually a partitio

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Scott
Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:10:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: /dev/hda10 4366 4870 4056381 83 Linux To me the problem is clearly about the file system not the partition. This seems like an interesting problem. I'm still mostly convinced it is actually a partitio

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:10:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > /dev/hda10 4366 4870 4056381 83 Linux > > To me the problem is clearly about the file system not the partition. This seems like an interesting problem. I'm still mostly convinced it is actually a partition problem. 10 is quite a

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Scott
green wrote: Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-12 21:55 -0600: green wrote: I don't recall seeing the output of 'fdisk -l' on the sid system; perhaps it would list disk sda instead of hda. Send the output of 'fdisk -l'. I'm only sending the relevant line since I have to type it.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-13 Thread green
Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-12 21:55 -0600: > green wrote: > >I don't recall seeing the output of 'fdisk -l' on the sid system; > >perhaps it would list disk sda instead of hda. Send the output of 'fdisk -l'. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-13 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Scott wrote: > green wrote: >> ... ... ... >> I don't recall seeing the output of 'fdisk -l' on the sid system; >> perhaps it would list disk sda instead of hda. >> >> Try 'mount /dev/sda10 /home' on the sid system. If that works, change >> hda10

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Scott
green wrote: Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-12 12:50 -0600: green wrote: What filesystem is it? ext2 (maybe ext3 but I don't think so) What is the output of 'mount /dev/hda10' on the sid system? mount: special device /dev/hda10 does not exist This means the de

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-12 Thread green
Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-12 12:50 -0600: > green wrote: > >What filesystem is it? > ext2 (maybe ext3 but I don't think so) > >What is the output of 'mount /dev/hda10' on the sid system? > mount: special device /dev/hda10 does not exist This means the device node in /dev for that partition does

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Scott
green wrote: Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-11 11:12 -0600: Late on Dec. 25 I rebooted my sid system and my home directory is no longer visible to my system even to Grub. It contains my home directory. An Ubuntu 8.10 live CD sees it just fine. I normally keep everything updated unless apt-lis

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-12 Thread green
Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-11 11:12 -0600: > Late on Dec. 25 I rebooted my sid system and my home directory is no > longer visible to my system even to Grub. It contains my home > directory. An Ubuntu 8.10 live CD sees it just fine. I normally keep > everything updated unless apt-listbugs shows

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Scott
Mark wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Sorry for reposting but my home system is effectively unusable. > > Late on Dec. 25 I rebooted my sid system and my home directory is no > longer visible to my system even to Grub. It contains my home > directory. An Ubun

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Scott
Waterhorse wrote: -Original Message- From: lego_12...@rambler.ru To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 01/11/10 19:24 Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Sorry for repo

Re[2]: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

2010-01-11 Thread Waterhorse
> -Original Message- > From: lego_12...@rambler.ru > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: 01/11/10 19:24 > Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >

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