Hey everyone,
I have used the search and found quite a few threads about moving the home folder and so on, but no problem seems to be quite like mine:
I tried to put my homefolder on a seperate partition following this howto: http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/06/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
After I reboot I can not log in - Leopard tells me there's a problem with my homefolder. After what I've read here in the forum the reason could be that the partition uses FAT32. So what I want to to for now is just tell OS X to use the old location (the folder is still there, I did not delete it). However, I don't get into the OS to revert the change. It does not, as somewhere described, create a new 'default' home folder (maybe because it cannot create a new folder on said FAT32 partition). So all I have for now is the shell I get into when I boot Pressing ctrl+s. Unfortunately, I am not exactly good in UNIX, from what I understand I have to mount my main partition and then find a way to change that home folder property back to normal from the commandline. Does someone know the exact commands for this?
The most important thing would be for me to get back into my system, however, maybe someone around here also knows if and how it is possible to have the homefolder on a FAT32 partition. I would like to access the data on this partition from leopard as well as from linux and windows, preferrably both read and write - or is there an other filesystem that makes all this possible?
Thanks for your help,
Ole
I have used the search and found quite a few threads about moving the home folder and so on, but no problem seems to be quite like mine:
I tried to put my homefolder on a seperate partition following this howto: http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/06/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
After I reboot I can not log in - Leopard tells me there's a problem with my homefolder. After what I've read here in the forum the reason could be that the partition uses FAT32. So what I want to to for now is just tell OS X to use the old location (the folder is still there, I did not delete it). However, I don't get into the OS to revert the change. It does not, as somewhere described, create a new 'default' home folder (maybe because it cannot create a new folder on said FAT32 partition). So all I have for now is the shell I get into when I boot Pressing ctrl+s. Unfortunately, I am not exactly good in UNIX, from what I understand I have to mount my main partition and then find a way to change that home folder property back to normal from the commandline. Does someone know the exact commands for this?
The most important thing would be for me to get back into my system, however, maybe someone around here also knows if and how it is possible to have the homefolder on a FAT32 partition. I would like to access the data on this partition from leopard as well as from linux and windows, preferrably both read and write - or is there an other filesystem that makes all this possible?
Thanks for your help,
Ole
