starcannon
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Posted: Jan. 10 2006,02:21 |
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| Quote (roberts @ Jan. 09 2006,19:51) | starcannon, just some comments. That is a rather novel approach.
It may work for well your specific setup, but ...
1 It assumes a frugal with persistent home otherwise the mount of your hda5 would not be there for the symlinks to work.
2. Storing extensions in the home directory is generally not a good approach. Most users not using a persistent home would then have those huge static extensions be backed and restored with every boot.
In general, extensions should be separate from /home/dsl so as to not be in the backup. Should one wish to use that feature.
With DSL there are so many ways to do things. |
Roberts thats a good point,
as i forgot to mention i listed my "My-DSL" directory in my "/home/dsl/.xfiletool.lst" as well as any other directories that i have made static, in this way i have lots of files on my HDD but my backup.tar.gz remains small.
Anyway i use this aproach on both frugal installs that i'm running, and lovin it, i was unclear how to aproach it when confronted with the idea of a 50~60mb boot partition so this seemed the logical aproach for me. Anyway i ramble on.
I'm a noob to DSL yet, but learning fast, if you find my aproach useful cool, if not i'm all ears to a better way.
Rob
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