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Can't preserve /home on reinstalling 6.6 release
I've just (re)installed 6.6 on a laptop. My previous /home was at /dev/wd0k.
While reinstalling, I told disklabel to modify /dev/wd0k. It didn't offer me the option not to mount the partition but I put "none" for the mount point, which seemed to work. After rebooting I inserted a line in /etc/fstab: /dev/wd0k /home ffs rw,nodev,no suid 1 2 This causes an error message on boot: mount dev/wd0k on /home: Invalid argument The same thing happens if I run the command manually. I know this method of saving /home worked for me some time ago. Has something changed in 6.6 which prevents it working? Have I missed a step? I can reconstitute /home if necessary without too much hassle (it's not my main computer) but I'd like to find out what's happening. |
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Sorry - that was a typo in my post here. It's correct in my fstab.
But I think I've found what's wrong: I ran fsck on /dev/wd0k and it finds problems with superblocks. Last edited by acampbell; 24th October 2019 at 08:54 AM. |
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You used to select u (upgrade) instead of i (install) if I remember right, but my attempt at installing 65 & 66 didn't work, so not sure if anything has changed in that regard.
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