/home/pi is empty?

[ianspy1]

Hello I have set up a pi zero W with raspbian for a project. When I cloned a git that I need for this project I noticed that /home/pi is empty. Shouldnt there be like a Video and Download folder at least? I tried "ls -la" too of course and it gives me the following output:

total 24
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi   pi   4096 Mar  4 23:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar  4 22:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi   pi    220 Mar  4 22:47 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi   pi   3523 Mar  4 22:47 .bashrc
drwx------ 3 pi   pi   4096 Mar  4 23:05 .gnupg
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi   pi    807 Mar  4 22:47 .profile

 

Any help?

[pythonmegapixel]

Did you install the version of Raspbian without the desktop enviroment?

I believe the default folders are created by desktop applications so if you've never started a desktop they won't be there.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about it; those folders aren't essential anyway. Just clone your Git repo in /home/pi, or if it bothers you that much you can do mkdir downloads

[ianspy1]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

Did you install the version of Raspbian without the desktop enviroment?

I believe the default folders are created by desktop applications so if you've never started a desktop they won't be there.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about it; those folders aren't essential anyway. Just clone your Git repo in /home/pi, or if it bothers you that much you can do mkdir downloads

The thing is when I am in /home/pi and do a git clone that git clone also dosnt apear there

[pythonmegapixel]

Just now, ianspy1 said:

The thing is when I am in /home/pi and do a git clone that git clone also dosnt apear there

That's rather strange. Is Git throwing an error at all? (Beware that it might not be clear, so read the output of the command carefully)

[ianspy1]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

That's rather strange. Is Git throwing an error at all? (Beware that it might not be clear, so read the output of the command carefully)

as far as my knowledge goes I see nothing odd any chance you have a confirmed working git clone that I could try? I even tried reflashing the sd card again

[pythonmegapixel]

8 minutes ago, ianspy1 said:

as far as my knowledge goes I see nothing odd any chance you have a confirmed working git clone that I could try? I even tried reflashing the sd card again

I wrote a random little open-source script a while ago, which I'm able to clone using Git.

git clone https://gitlab.com/jamdown/jdcore.git

worked for me on Manjaro Linux just now.

 

Output should be this (and nothing else) - the 3.32MiB/s might be different though:

Cloning into 'jdcore'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 40, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (40/40), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (22/22), done.
remote: Total 40 (delta 14), reused 34 (delta 12), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (40/40), 23.27 KiB | 3.32 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (14/14), done.

 

(You won't be able to actually run the code from the project as you won't have the dependencies for it, but you can check Git is actually working)

[Jarsky]

12 minutes ago, ianspy1 said:

When I cloned a git that I need for this project I noticed that /home/pi is empty. Shouldnt there be like a Video and Download folder at least?

 

The Video , Download, etc...folders are part of the desktop environment so they won't be there if you just installed the lite version of Raspberry Pi OS.

As for git not cloning there, git should clone to whatever your current working directory (cwd) is. 

Are you using the default 'pi' user? make sure in terminal you go to ~ (which is home of the current user)

 

e.g

cd ~/

git clone <gitlink.git>

ls -la

[Master Disaster]

If you do

mkdir \etc\skel\documents
mkdir \etc\skel\downloads
mkdir \etc\skel\music
mkdir \etc\skel\pictures
mkdir \etc\skel\videos

then do

adduser bob -p
*enter the new users password*

it should create the user "bob" and populate "\home\bob\" with the 5 folders.

[Skiiwee29]

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