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I want to move /home
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| raffelm 2002-09-09, 1:29 pm |
| I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
formated as fat32 btw).
I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
need.
So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
/dev/hdb1?
Thanks
Matt
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| On 09 Sep 2002 at 16:19:22,
raffelm <raffelm@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
> currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
> formated as fat32 btw).
>
> I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
> make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
> need.
>
> So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
> another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
> drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
> windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
> d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
>
> How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
> /dev/hdb1?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
edit your /etc/fstab
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| On 09 Sep 2002 at 16:19:22,
raffelm <raffelm@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
> currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
> formated as fat32 btw).
>
> I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
> make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
> need.
>
> So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
> another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
> drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
> windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
> d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
>
> How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
> /dev/hdb1?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
edit your /etc/fstab
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| Gregory Davis 2002-09-09, 7:29 pm |
| raffelm wrote:
> I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
> currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
> formated as fat32 btw).
>
> I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
> make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
> need.
>
> So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
> another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
> drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
> windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
> d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
>
> How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
> /dev/hdb1?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
You might want to look into having another box host your "home" directories
using some file sharing technique like nfs, or afs. Then, have the other
box(es) mount your "home" directory over a network so that you only work
with one set of "home" files, and everyone plays nice.
Greg
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| Gregory Davis 2002-09-09, 8:29 pm |
| raffelm wrote:
> I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
> currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
> formated as fat32 btw).
>
> I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
> make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
> need.
>
> So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
> another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
> drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
> windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
> d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
>
> How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
> /dev/hdb1?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
You might want to look into having another box host your "home" directories
using some file sharing technique like nfs, or afs. Then, have the other
box(es) mount your "home" directory over a network so that you only work
with one set of "home" files, and everyone plays nice.
Greg
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| raffelm wrote:
>
> I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
> currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
> formated as fat32 btw).
>
> I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
> make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
> need.
>
> So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
> another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
> drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
> windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
> d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
>
> How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
> /dev/hdb1?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
See PARTITIONS --> NEW ONES at http://www.linux-sxs.org
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| raffelm wrote:
>
> I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
> currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
> formated as fat32 btw).
>
> I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
> make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
> need.
>
> So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
> another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
> drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
> windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
> d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
>
> How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
> /dev/hdb1?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
See PARTITIONS --> NEW ONES at http://www.linux-sxs.org
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8:35pm up 27 days, 14:01, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.02
85 processes: 84 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.4% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
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| Dave Uhring 2002-09-09, 9:28 pm |
| Gregory Davis wrote:
>
> You might want to look into having another box host your "home"
> directories
> using some file sharing technique like nfs, or afs. Then, have the
> other box(es) mount your "home" directory over a network so that you
> only work with one set of "home" files, and everyone plays nice.
In order to maintain consistent UIDs and GIDs it is necessary to run a
directory service such as NIS/NIS+ with this method. And if the OP
cannot even create a separate directory for /home it is somewhat
unreasonable to expect your solution to be viable.
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| Dave Uhring 2002-09-09, 10:28 pm |
| Gregory Davis wrote:
>
> You might want to look into having another box host your "home"
> directories
> using some file sharing technique like nfs, or afs. Then, have the
> other box(es) mount your "home" directory over a network so that you
> only work with one set of "home" files, and everyone plays nice.
In order to maintain consistent UIDs and GIDs it is necessary to run a
directory service such as NIS/NIS+ with this method. And if the OP
cannot even create a separate directory for /home it is somewhat
unreasonable to expect your solution to be viable.
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| How do your parents feel about it?
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"raffelm" <raffelm@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:c8ff683b.0209090819.78229182@posting.google.com...
> I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
> currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
> formated as fat32 btw).
>
> I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
> make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
> need.
>
> So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
> another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
> drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
> windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
> d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
>
> How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
> /dev/hdb1?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
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| How do your parents feel about it?
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"raffelm" <raffelm@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:c8ff683b.0209090819.78229182@posting.google.com...
> I'm using Suse7.1. I want to move my /home to another drive. /home is
> currently on /dev/hda3. It needs to be moved to /dev/hdb1 (which is
> formated as fat32 btw).
>
> I'm setting up my pc to run multiple OSes. I'm using Drive Image to
> make images of OSes and restoring the images depending on which OS I
> need.
>
> So that I do not need to recapture the OS each time I need to restore
> another OS, I want to move the things that change from each use to a
> drive that never gets overwritten. So I need to move /home. (For my
> windows OS, the OS appears on drive C and I setup "My documents" to
> d:\my documents which will never get overwritten).
>
> How do I do this so that everytime I boot into Suse the home is on
> /dev/hdb1?
>
> Thanks
> Matt
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