using hda3

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: using hda3
started by: lwmxynedtodth

Posted by lwmxynedtodth on May 21 2006,12:23

Hai,
Just got dsl working, it's great. Just a few questions:

- I've set up a 3rd partition, to use as filestorage, storage for mydsl and settings. So how do I use hda3 as /home?
- How can I edit /grub/menu.lst? I started emelfm as su, trying to write to it, but it says it is write protected, and the file-system is read only. I do not know wheter it is menu.lst on the ramdisk or somewhere else, can't point that out. Dir = /KNOPPIX/boot/grub/menu.lst

I'll post if other questions come up:)
Thanks in advance,
lwmxynedtodth

Posted by lwmxynedtodth on May 21 2006,12:58

Well, sorry for the wrong forum. But here's the answer, so this could be a 'tips 'n tricks.'

- The menu.lst is not in 'knoppix/boot/grub' but in 'cdrom/boot/grub'
- Using another partition as home, called persistent folders, could be done by boot option 'dsl home=hdaX opt=hdaX' and so on.

Did not yet figured out why the link 'home' in '/' is still pointing to the ramdisk.

Posted by mikshaw on May 21 2006,14:15

Quote (lwmxynedtodth @ May 21 2006,08:58)

Did not yet figured out why the link 'home' in '/' is still pointing to the ramdisk.

It provides consistency and compatibilty with the non-persistent system. It's possible that links and other files created by the user will refer to /ramdisk/home/dsl/* instead of /home/dsl/*, and this prevents any problems if that situation should occur.

You can verify that the directory in ramdisk is just a link to your persistent directory by creating a file in /mnt/whatever/home/dsl and see that it also appears in /ramdisk/home/dsl

Posted by lwmxynedtodth on May 22 2006,07:02

So if I guess correct: if I'm doing something on the ramdisk (like saving a file), it is not really saved on the ramdisk, but on the static /home dir.