Other Help Topics :: Can`t have persistent directories

Pls help...
I`ve just finished the frugal install, and it works so great that I decided to stay with this distro

I want my home and opt directories stay on hard drive and dont wavt to waste time with backing up. So I copied them to hda2 (30GB ext2, where the MyDSL and the cd image also are). After that, edited menu.lst for grub, added: home=hda opt=hda2 norestore
But after reboot, it behaves as before, but doesn`t see any home or opt (because its not on ramdisk). therefore it refuses to boot properly. :angry:

Alredy tried to fool it with tricky symlinks, wont work. tried home=/mnt/hda2 and home=hda2/home and such, nothing good.

Has anybody some idea what the problem could be? Is it a bug or just I cant read that howto and do it correctly?

You can't use persistent directories on the same partition that holds DSL, unless you also run it "toram".

Thank you! Repartitioning the entire hdd to separate them helped.
and its cool ;)

Something else to note, although you've already repartitioned...
DSL can't use reiserfs as its root filesystem, but persistent directories can. Using reiserfs can save a lot of the hassle of fscking ext drives every couple of months.

original here.