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Topic: How to set /home to another partition, /home folder on a different partition

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Tommy599

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Posted: July 23 2008,16:05

Hey everyone!

I searched the forum for this but couldn't find anything, maybe it's called something different, sorry if the is a topic on this on already.

I installed the latest DSL, 4.4.3 on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 500MHz, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD using HD-install.

I would like to have the /home folder on a different partition (mounted to a different partition, don't know the exact terminology. ) so when I upgrade or change distros my data doesn't get lost.

Yes, I know there is a backup service but I usually keep alot of things in my home folder and it takes a long time for the initial backup. ( I had some problems with this, I loaded the home folder with pics and then I thought DSL froze when I tried to turn off the laptop, when in fact it was backing up the data).

So, can this be done and how?

Thank you.

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Juanito

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Posted: July 23 2008,16:21

What you're looking for is called persistent home - you can find the explanation of what to do in the dsl wiki.

If your files are reasonably static, why not save them on the other partition rather than in /home/dsl?

Tommy599

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Posted: July 23 2008,16:48

That's it! Thanks!

That would be an option too, but I'm too lazy to always copy stuff to the other partition. This way, I just copy stuff to $HOME and it's easier. It's more convenient for me this way

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mikshaw

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Posted: July 23 2008,22:15

I agree with you. Static files are best stored, in my opinion, in a persistent home, as long as you don't have a need to use multiple machines. Personally I even keep other files such as root's personal configs, bootlocal, and other files I want to persist in a subdirectory of /home/dsl (with proper file ownership) and copy or link them into the system because I find it more logical to do that than to rewrite a backup file every time I reboot.

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Tommy599

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Posted: July 24 2008,16:27

Well I followed all the instructions, but I am not sure I managed to do what I wanted.

hda4 is the partition I want home to be. I created a folder named home there. Modified fstab and bootlocal.sh, added the home=hda4 and nofstab to the appen line in lilo.conf.

hda4 is mounted at boot, and I see it unmounting at shutdown but if I put a file in my home directory it doesn't show up in /mnt/hda4/home/dsl. What did I do wrong?

Here's my /etc/fstab:

Code Sample

/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=1001,gid=50 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda3 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0

And my /opt/bootlocal.sh:

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
# put other system startup command here
/sbin/syslogd
mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4

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