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
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 fstab
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 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
probably want
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
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
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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
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 some have their
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