different partitions for linux

[bluesky]

I 'd like to make partitions for my linux system: (1) swap (2) /boot (3) / (4) /usr and (5) /home.

The problem was when I addusers, the new users went into the "home subdirectory" under the root directory (/). I was assuming that they should all go to the home directory(/home). So what happened?

It seemed that redhat only installed in the (/) partition.

[ 14 November 2001: Message edited by: bluesky ]

[Dark Ninja]

Well, I know in Mandrake there is an expert mode where you have to tell Mandrake that you want /home to be /home. It can't figure it out for itself. Since Mandrake is based off of RedHat, it may be something like that. I'm not sure. (It is all done in setup, BTW.)


Dark Ninja

[jdctx]

It may just appear that way one way to tell if in fact it did create seperate partitions is to do a df in command prompt

if it shows something like

/dev/hda1 12344 44566
/dev/hda4 * *
/dev/hda5 44568 89998
/dev/hda6 89999 99999

you probably have what you need and users are going to the proper directory

[DMR]

Originally posted by bluesky:
[Q] I was assuming that they should all go to the home directory(/home).[/QB] "/home" and "the home sub directory under the root directory" are the same thing. That forward slash in "/home" indicates the root directory, just as it would in any other context. You can have a separate physical partition for home, but the filesystem that you created on that partition will be mounted under /, if that's the way it is set up in your /etc/fstab file.

[bluesky]

Reply to DMR. It is possible as you posted but when logged in as root I clicked on the home icon (in kde), I saw the home directory which is separatge from the root directory. The root directory included a subdirectory "home" and a sub-directory "root".

So it seemed apparent that in the layout, home directory (/home) is separate from the sub-directory "home" in the root directory (/).

I have used linux for a while, but suddenly I was caught by this. really amazed me. :(

I probably will try the expert mode installation as Dark Ninja suggested, although I am no expert.

[ 15 November 2001: Message edited by: bluesky ]

[Siskmarek]

bluesky: Everything is okay. :)

No, really. It is!

Don't confuse root (/) with root's home (/root). Root's home is kept separate from the user's home (/home) for reasons I don't care to elaborate on.

The only way home (/home) would not be on its own partition is if you never defined a partition for home (/home) to solely occupy.

So if all the partitions I defined in the repartitioning tool of my distro installation program were root (/), user (/usr), and boot (/boot), then the home (/home) directory would be kept on the root (/) parition.

But since you gave home (/home) its own partition you're okay. The transition from going from root (/) to home (/home) is seamless, just like going from root (/) to boot (/boot) is seamless, et cetera.

Go ahead and check your /etc/fstab file. I'm sure an entry for home (/home) is in there!

I don't know if you've reinstalled or not by now, but just remember you're okay!

~ Siskie

[Icarus]

Um...what he said! :D

Check your fstab and see if it is mounting the /home partition you created, as stated before I'm sure it is there.

[bluesky]

Mahdi. It isn't that the /home was not there but because the users went to the sub-directory home( in root directory ), and this is not what I want.

Do you see what I mean? the reason for home as a separate partition is to store data AND the home for all the users including the webmaster.

[mjb0314]

Before you make the mistake of reinstalling, please post your /etc/fstab file.

I have my box set up the same, with /home on a separate partition. If I cd to / in an xterm and issue the ls command, the /home directory will show up as a normal directory.

THAT'S THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE!!

Another example is my windows partition which shows up as /mnt/windows, which seamlessly shows up from my / directory if I issue the command ls /mnt.

[ 15 November 2001: Message edited by: mjb0314 ]

[bluesky]

I am sorry a little hasty. Mahdi was right!!!

I also found that in redhat 7.1, expert mode = standard mode; none different!