Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:26:12PM +0100, Cédric Lucantis wrote:
> > >
> > > 2. Should I place "/home/masatran", or "/home", on the drive?
> >
> > This is your choice here. With /home, you'll have the homes of all
> > your users on your drive (except if
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are some thoughts:
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* Consider assigning a GUID to the ext3 partition instead of a label.
Labels are certainly simpler, but a GUID is more likely to be unique
(though I'm sure you could come up with a pretty unique but still
simple label...).
There is a
Here are some thoughts:
* Use LVM. It's great, and works well with external USB drives. It
will detect it on boot, or you can run /etc/init.d/lvm anytime to
redetect newly-connected drives.
* Consider assigning a GUID to the ext3 partition instead of a label.
Labels are certainly simpler, but a
On 3/22/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to keep my home directory on an external drive and move it between
computers as required.
I managed 8000 users in a WAN and all personal directories are stored
in a sMB server and I'm using libpam-mount to give them their home
di
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:26:12PM +0100, Cédric Lucantis wrote:
> >
> > 2. Should I place "/home/masatran", or "/home", on the drive?
>
> This is your choice here. With /home, you'll have the homes of all your users
> on your drive (except if some have their home elsewhere, of course). You
> pr
> I want to keep my home directory on an external drive and move it between
> computers as required.
First, make sure that your users on the different computers have the same
uid/gid (edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group for that).
>
> 1. It is asking for super-user privileges to mount it. How can I
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:38:19PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> I want to keep my home directory on an external drive and move it between
> computers as required.
>
> 1. It is asking for super-user privileges to mount it. How can I avoid this?
>
Make sure you have it set to user in your f
I want to keep my home directory on an external drive and move it between
computers as required.
1. It is asking for super-user privileges to mount it. How can I avoid this?
2. Should I place "/home/masatran", or "/home", on the drive?
3. How can I get it to use the external drive as my home dir
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