Changing /home

Forum: System
Topic: Changing /home
started by: NewDude

Posted by NewDude on Mar. 12 2006,11:33

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

Posted by clivesay on Mar. 12 2006,13:35

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

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 12 2006,17:12

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.

Posted by NewDude on Mar. 12 2006,23:33

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.

Posted by clivesay on Mar. 12 2006,23:42

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.

Posted by NewDude on Mar. 13 2006,03:23

I just finished configuring most of my laptop. This laptop is a P266mhz Toshiba, 96mb and 2 - 2gb hd's...

DSL 2.2b shares this computer wth evil Win98... Everything seems to be working great including NDISWRAPPER with this WPC11linksysPCMCIA card on my wireless network.
I am even considering using this system to run my webpage and php/Mysql forum because DSL runs so fast on it. Not sure yet... I have 3 systems running DSL now at my home and have 2 more to get running with DSL. I have an old laptop out in my garage I haven't messed with in years. It runs good still, but I am planning on installing DSL on it tomorrow. It is a compaq LT51xx (Can't remember) P133mhz with 48mb and 2.1 gb hd. DSL should run great on it. Might have it run my website and use my toshiba to write code with.

So many options, so little time...

DSL is one fun OS. It is by far my favorite flavor of Linux.

It is great to have the Toshiba because it keeps me inside with the family. My wife doesn't get mad at me because I am inside in my chair and not out in the garage coding... I can control all my system using VNC... Funny huh?