Can`t have persistent directories

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Can`t have persistent directories
started by: dianos

Posted by dianos on Jan. 04 2007,23:51

Pls help...
I`ve just finished the frugal install, and it works so great that I decided to stay with this distro

I want my home and opt directories stay on hard drive and dont wavt to waste time with backing up. So I copied them to hda2 (30GB ext2, where the MyDSL and the cd image also are). After that, edited menu.lst for grub, added: home=hda opt=hda2 norestore
But after reboot, it behaves as before, but doesn`t see any home or opt (because its not on ramdisk). therefore it refuses to boot properly. :angry:

Alredy tried to fool it with tricky symlinks, wont work. tried home=/mnt/hda2 and home=hda2/home and such, nothing good.

Has anybody some idea what the problem could be? Is it a bug or just I cant read that howto and do it correctly?

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 05 2007,01:01

You can't use persistent directories on the same partition that holds DSL, unless you also run it "toram".

Posted by dianos on Jan. 05 2007,18:00

Thank you! Repartitioning the entire hdd to separate them helped.
and its cool ;)

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 05 2007,19:09

Something else to note, although you've already repartitioned...
DSL can't use reiserfs as its root filesystem, but persistent directories can. Using reiserfs can save a lot of the hassle of fscking ext drives every couple of months.