Linux @lemmy.ml evasync @lemmy.world 2w ago

cant mount home on boot

Im giving a go fedora silverblue on a new laptop but Im unable to boot (and since im a linux noob the first thing i tried was installing it fresh again but that didnt resolve it).

its a single drive partitioned to ext4 and encrypted with luks (its basically the default config from the fedora installation)

any ideas for things to try?

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The error says /home is a symlink, what if you ls -l /home?

Since this is an atomic distro, /home might be a symlink to /var/home.
- yes it is a symlink to /var/home
  
  So shouldn't you mount your home partition on /var/home instead?
- the command returns my user dir and a lost+found dir
  
  What's in lost+found
Isn't the default filesystem btrfs? Why did you go with ext4
That’s what she said.
Did you reformat the disk before installing? I've seen similar fails when the disk is still encrypted. The installer can't get a hold of a previously encrypted disk. If there's no valuable data in the disk, load up a live distro run gparted and nuke the disk blank and pristine again, as gparted doesn't care about encryption. Then try the installer again.
- no, I just removed them with the live cd and repartitioned it (Im assuming its doing the same thing under the hood?)
  
  You should let the installer do the partitioning. Silverblue and immutable systems are nitpicky about it. Specially if luks is involved. The whole point is that you shouldn't meddle with the system at a low level at all.

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