On 11/04/13 04:23, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > ... is possible. I understand the concept of mounting > the filesystem. > > Additionally there can be a backup home directory which > stays with the machine, on a hdd for example. I imagine > that when the machine powers up without the removeable > storage, the backup home directory is instated. When > the removeable storage is connected, the backup is > remounted as another directory in /home and the removeable > is mounted as the home. > > So for example, without the removeable present /home/peter > is on the hdd. With the removeable present, /home/peter > is on that and the hdd is /home/peter.bak with the same > ownership and privilages as /home/peter. With udev, it > might be accomplished with one or two scripts.
I think I'd try to avoid changing the mounts around while logged in; that seems to me a recipe for confused software. In particular, unmounting it while it's in use isn't going to work. And I think I'd leave the backup directory mounted on both /home/peter and /home/peter.bak all the time, and just mount the removable drive over the top. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5188f96b.2040...@walnut.gen.nz
