No configuration files in home folder.

Hello,
I am installing x86_64 arch and using my /home folder from ubuntu, but not any of the configs from ubuntu. So i deleted my /home/haxit folder, and installed arch. Now, when i add my user, it adds the folder but not any configs in the /home/haxit folder that arch created. Is this normal?
Thanks,
HaXiT

haxit wrote:
.xsession .xinitrc
I need these so that when I install xfce i can boot up on it immidiatly.
My home folder now has .bashrc and .bash_profile. Is that all there is on a fresh install?
Well, a fresh (Core) install does not include X11 so obviously .xsession and .xinitrc do not exist in /etc/skel. If you create your user after you have installed the xorg group then adduser will copy across the .xinit and .xsession files. Alternatively you can copy these manually if you install xorg afer you have created your user.

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dev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=5109884k,nr_inodes=1277471,mode=755 0 0
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fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
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gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100 0 0
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NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 20G 0 part /
├─sda3 8:3 0 10G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda4 8:4 0 208.5G 0 part /home
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
I have checked three times the commands that I ran when installing Arch Linux with a few tutorials including beginner's guide but don't see where could be the issue. Maybe any of you know what could be the problem here?
Last edited by juraskaz (2014-10-29 18:13:02)

drcouzelis wrote:
juraskaz wrote:Some information from commands to get more clear view:
I'm so confused. O_O What is the problem? The output of those commands are all consistent: "/dev/sda2" is mounted as "/" and "/dev/sda4" is mounted as "/home".
Are you saying that when you create a 1GB file in "/home" that 1GB of space becomes used in BOTH "/home" and "/"?
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