opt and home on the same partition?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: opt and home on the same partition?
started by: Gatu

Posted by Gatu on Dec. 23 2006,15:46

Hi,

I am doing a frugal install and would like to put opt and home on hda3. System is hda, swap hda2.
I use frugal_lilo.sh and I put opt=hda3 home=hda3 to the boot options.
However on booting from the disk only the first of both items is created and mounts. If I reverse the order then the other one works.

Is it possible at all to put both on the same partition?
If not, which would be a good partition size for opt?

Thanks,
Gatu

Posted by roberts on Dec. 23 2006,16:17

From the default configuration, as you have seen, I had never intended for both to be on the same partition.
With the uci and unc extension types, there is very little need for a persistent /opt
I call these types of install a hybrid

Posted by Gatu on Dec. 23 2006,16:23

Hi roberts,

this computer is a very old P1 laptop with a slow disk and backup and restore take much time. This is why I prefer to make both directories persistent.

Br,
Gatu

Posted by Gatu on Dec. 23 2006,17:04

I guess I found the problem:
The line which holds all those option inside lilo.conf is getting to long. I erased references to lots of not existing drives inside and rerun lilo and now it seems to work.
Br,
Gatu