System :: Changing /home

I did a frugal install on my laptop, my boot loader is grub, it works great, here are my partitions:

/hda1/ = Windows 98
/hda3/ = frugal DSL 2.2b(EXT2)
/hda5/= 700mb linux(EXT2)
/hda6/= 250mb linux swap
/hda7/= Fat32

When I boot up, my system monitoring shows my /home is part of ramdisk. What file do I change to get my /home on /hda5 ? Also, what is the syntax to change my dsl account to have full write, execute & read. access to /hda5? Would it be chmod 777 /hda5 when logged in as SU? How do you tell linux while being su you want the dsl account to have full access to that partition?

Thanks

In the append line in grub just add 'home=hda5' and that's it! Now hda5 will be /home/dsl.

Keep in mind that when successfully changing /home to hda5, it will still appear to be in /ramdisk. This is only a mountpoint (or symlink?) used to keep DSL's behavior consistent with a default DSL setup. Your files will still persist in /mnt/hda5/home/dsl.

Thank you both very much. It is funny, I bought a few books on Linux and I have read, read and couldn't find the answer to my question and you 2 answered it with no problem... I figure it was a easy question, I guess not many people want to change their home.

thanks again.

No it's not that. DSL just has that option as a boot code. That's not something that's available with all linux distros. There are many things that make DSL unique through alot of Robert's innovations.

Glad you're up and going.

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