Markus Huber wrote:
Maybe it is possible. I suppose during installation Fedora has to
recognize the external disk so that it can get the mountpoint /home.
If that is possible, then there is no problem using an external drive
as /home directory.
What I am absolutely not sure about, if it is possible to change the
mountpoint /home on a running system. Somebody else have to help about
that.
I am thinking of changing the /home directory to another partition,
but yet have not found a solution how to do it on a running system, so
I personally would be interested in expert answer on that as well.
Regards
Markus
That part (changing the /home directory to a different mount point) I
know can be done as I did it a few weeks ago. I have lost the web
reference to an article showing how to do it but you should find
something if you google around. I think it went something like:
- login as root
- init to single-user mode ( init 1)
- mount the new partition somewhere temporary
- copy all /home/* stuff to the new partition
- unmount the temporary partition and remount at /home
- init back to 5 or 3
- set up fstab so the new mountpoint is there on reboot
That may not be the exact sequence, but it was quite easy.
