Unable to mount /home partition

[plapczynski]

I had the same problem Al did. My .home partition wouldn't mount. Mine was a new install on 9.10 that had been running since it came out. I did run all updates as they came out.

Here is what I did:

esc to enter recovery shell

vi /etc/fstab
commented out the entry for sda5 (my home partition)
entered the following the next line down.
/dev/sda5 /home ext4 defaults 0 2

I was using ext4 as my filesystem.

Saved the file.
Quit vi
rebooted

I got some disk checking at boot, but got to the gui login prompt.
Once logged in I edited the etc/fstab file again.

I uncommented the old sda5 entry
I commented the new sda5 entry I had just put in.

Rebooted.

No disk checks, no errors, just the gui login prompt.

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
shows three partitions (sda1, sda5, sda3) all with uuid's

I was getting ready to just reinstall (had just backed up home to a USB drive a week ago so I wasn't worried about data loss) but I am thankful I tried this first.

Final notes - backup often and run vi every few days, I hadn't for months since I was using the gui editors.

Paul

[tithily]

We faced the same problem as al_mic (except for the encryption part), and solved the problem by referring to the block special device (/dev/sda4) directly in /etc/fstab in place of it's symbolic link as per delcypher's suggestion.

Thanks, delcypher and other members for your help!

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