On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 17:42 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Craig White wrote: > > > 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 > > I don't get the connection. > Why not labels? > > > 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) > > On F11, /home will be a symbolic link to /homes/F11 > fred's home directory will be /homes/F11/fred aka /home/fred . > > > 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 > > This suggests to me that I did not remember correctly, > i.e. the boot sequence will not write over fstab. > Is that correct? > Will the boot sequence leave fstab alone? > > > I'd probably forget about symbolic links but you might be able to make > > them work ---- first...I made a mistake which I would like to correct. edit /etc/fstab (dangerous) might want to use system tools to do this craig:x:500:500:Craig White:/home/F11/craig:/bin/bash should have been to edit /etc/passwd second, there are many good reasons to use uuid in references in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf and some of them are listed here... http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146951 this author glosses over the most obvious reason...that an install with Fedora 9 & 11 will leave you with 2 /boot partitions and probably 2 / partitions. Inherent in the logic that wants to use /dev/sda1 for /boot is the assumption that it will always be a particular hard drive but this depends upon nothing ever changing and things always change. Using UUID's makes changes in BIOS order of hard drives insignificant. I am not exactly sure why you bothered asking the list about all of this if you are determined to do symbolic links and the old style labels. I suspect that if you go your route, you will end up with a confused, difficult to maintain, selinux off dual-boot computer but it is your computer and you should do as you please. but the answer to your last question...No, boot sequence will never over write/change /etc/fstab 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
