On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:13 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I'm dual booting F9 and F11. > There is a partition that mounts on F9:/home and on F11:/home. > I suspect that my ~/.* directories are stepping on each other. > I want to reorganize so that the to-be-former home partition > mounts on F9:/homes and on F11:/homes. > F9:/home would be a symbolic link to /homes/F9. > F11:/home would be a symbolic link to /homes/F11. > User fred would have home directories with canonical names > /homes/F9/fred and /homes/F11/fred . > Each would have a symbolic link to /homes/fred, > his old home directory. > > Once upon a time, I would boot from a live CD, > reorganize the directories, and edit the fstabs. > IIRC fstabs now get rewritten at boot time. > Mere hand editing won't do the trick. > What will do the trick? > > Also, is there a way to use labels instead of those awful UUIDs? > I concede their usefullness if one has > a lot of disks or a lot of turnover. > I have four disks. ---- first, the fact that you are dual booting F9 and F11 demonstrates the need to use UUID's second - if you want to muck around with /home, probably better to just mount and 'bind' mount (see 'man mount') because then you won't have issues with things like selinux but remember that you will have to edit the 'users' $HOME in /etc/passwd to reflect the change for each installation... (assuming /home/Fedora11/ is where users home folders are) i.e. mkdir /home/F9 mkdir /home/F11 edit /etc/fstab /home/Fedora11 /home/F11 bind,rw 0 0 edit /etc/fstab (dangerous) might want to use system tools to do this craig:x:500:500:Craig White:/home/F11/craig:/bin/bash I'd probably forget about symbolic links but you might be able to make them work Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
