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Topic: Why isn't the /home directory on my hard drive?

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jhsu

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Posted: May 26 2007,00:52

Here are my partitions:

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 57.58
hda3 Primary Linux ext2 19847.61
hda2 Primary Linux swap 509.97

I've noticed that the /home directory is a shortcut to ramdisk. This is the directory for root and all subordinate users.

How do I get the /home directory to be on hda3? I'm used to saving things to the /home drive, but it's currently part of RAM rather than the hard drive.

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Current cheatcodes:
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal home=hda3 opt=hda3 restore=hda3 root=hda3

mikshaw

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Posted: May 26 2007,01:46

Use the boot option home=hda3
This will create the directory /mnt/hda3/home/dsl if it doesn't already exist. Your home directory will still appear to be in /ramdisk/home/dsl, but that's just a symlink to /mnt/hda3/home/dsl

The home directory for root is /root, which you will need to backup if you want to keep those files persistent. Or you can create a root directory on /mnt/hda3 and symlink it to /root in the /opt/bootlocal.sh script.

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jhsu

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Posted: May 26 2007,03:27

Quote (mikshaw @ May 25 2007,21:46)

OK, you say to use the boot option "home=hda3".

But how do I implement this step? Under the frugal hard drive installation, I don't get the splash screen that allows me to enter cheat codes by pressing F2. I believe that I'm supposed to add the text "home=hda3" to a particular file, but which file is it, and in what directory is this file?

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Current cheatcodes:
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal home=hda3 opt=hda3 restore=hda3 root=hda3

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Posted: May 26 2007,03:33

It depends on your bootloader. Did you check the wiki for details?

jhsu

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Posted: May 26 2007,03:58

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ May 25 2007,23:33)

It depends on your bootloader. Did you check the wiki for details?

I'm using the grub bootloader, but I couldn't find the instructions on that in the Wiki.

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Current cheatcodes:
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal home=hda3 opt=hda3 restore=hda3 root=hda3

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