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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,11:33 QUOTE

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?  

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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,13:35 QUOTE

In the append line in grub just add 'home=hda5' and that's it! Now hda5 will be /home/dsl.
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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,17:12 QUOTE

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.

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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,23:33 QUOTE

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.
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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,23:42 QUOTE

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.
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