On Monday 03 November 2003 12:31, Buchan Milne wrote: > Austin wrote: > > One of the coolest ideas I got was from a guy who suggested that USB > > memory cards be used as the /home directory. This is a brilliant > > idea... as you could walk around with the liveCD, and your USB memory > > card, and you would essentially have your desktop in your pocket, that > > would run on almost any workstation anywhere, with your /home/.hidden > > files and everything. It would be cool if the liveCD startup script > > would automatically mount the USB memory card as /home if it was > > inserted before boot time, but as /mnt/usbram (or similar) if inserted > > after bootup. > > There is initial support for this in CVS, but since I misplaced my USB > flash disk about a week ago I haven't been able to test it.
USB flash does indeed work and it auto-mounted on detection. At this point a specific mountpoint it is a bit kludgy, since you need to create a "LIVECD.MNT" file on the device/partition (containing "mount=/home"), allowing this to work for any partition on the machine, and it is automagically mounted at the correct place. I don't want to default to a specific type of setup, eg. always use flash as home, altough this can be easily made configurable on CD creation, e.g. always use flash as /home when present. (Since 90% of other things are.) Now if I just had time to write a little mountpoint setup tool... Apart from that, it is really nice to see it out in the real world :) Jaco
