:>I do not understand. You are taking a partition, like hdb1 and
:>putting the susie stuff on it and mounting it to /home/susie.
:>
:>This is straightforward in Linux. Or am I missing something in
:>what you said?
Hi, Ramon
I am not quite sure what Ian wanted to say, but I think he would like to
have a following schema:
hda1 contains DIR1 and DIR3
hdd1 contains DIR2 and DIR4
now you mount BOTH hda1 and hdd1 under home, and you can access
/home/DIRn, where n=1,2,3,4.
It would be nice to have such a possibility sometimes, but I am not avare
of any way of doing this (I would really LOVE to be wrong on this one!)-
as it is you would have to mount hda1 and hdd1 somewhere, then add
symbolic links under /home in order to acheive this
effect, which is a reason most of the people use something like
/home/MACHINE/USER, or /home/DISK/user naming schema if they want or have
to put users on different disks/machines.
Unfortunately, above mentioned schema eventually leads to problems: sooner
or later, you will have to move some users from one machine/disk to
another. Unfortunately some badly writen programs start misbehaving once
you do this, because they put ABSOLUTE PATHS in their configurations-data!
Although this sounds incredeable at first, such programs are all but rare.
Just two examples: Netscape and gimp.
If the home directory changes, netscape will loose bookmarks, history,
cache and private mailcap and mime-types.
I took "gimp" (v. 1.0.4) as a second example for two reasons: first, it
is an open-sourced, non-comercial project and it originated on linux.
Therefore, one would expect its writers to understand the concept of
"home-directory". A look at File/Preferences/Directories shows that this
is not the case. A second reason is that as soon as gimps tries to put
some data in the swap directory and realises there is no swap directory,
hunderts of "something bad will happen soon" messages appear on the
screen, until eventually a system (or at least your session) crashes. The
only way to stop these messages from appearing is to switch to a virtual
terminal and kill it.
And, giving each user its own partition and mounting it under /home/user
is not a solution, either, unles you have very few users, and each of them
has its own PC, where this schema may be feaseable.
cu
Denis
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