Re: forgot a partition

[Chris Albertson <calbertson logicon com>]

Assuming you have the space yes, you could make a new partition
either on the same of another disk.  The missing /home partition
will not cause your problem. Many people set up Linux with just
one big root partition.  In your system /home is on /

How to add 

use fdisk to make partition
mkfs to make a file system
edit /etc/fstab
then "mount -a" to mount everything in /etc/fstab

One trick.  You will have to copy everthing in your
current /home directory to the new /home partition.
so before you do the above "mount -a" try
mv /home /home_old
then after the mount
cp -a /home_old/* /home



SBTM wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Last night I installed RH 6.0 without a single problem or error. When
> everything was setup and ready to go, I logged on as root and tried to
> create a user for myself. I did. It didn't give me any error messages
> of any sort. I logged of and tried to log back on but it told me that
> the user does not exist. Then I happen to remember that when I was
> making or creating the partitions, I did not set aside a partition for
> /home. The only partitions I've got is the /tmp and /
> 
> Now my question is, can I "add" the /home partition assuming I have
> enough space? Or better yet, what are my options?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> --Sadiq
> 
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