linuxgeek: Re: Changing location of /home WAS: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] new to linux, have not down loaded yet need help

Monday, October 26, 2009

Re: Changing location of /home WAS: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] new to linux, have not down loaded yet need help

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J wrote:

> Well, Justin, interesting question. Us Elitist Creeps usually do it
> at install time via a custom partition scheme however sometimes our
> Elitist machines need a more Elite partitioning setup. So in those
> cases, we Elitist Creeps prefer to use a partitioning tool on either
> unallocated drive space or a fresh hard disk, and some quick edits to
> /etc/fstab.
>

Another Elitist strategy, that I use on most of my machines, and the
machines I manage, is to install front-loading, swappable hard drive
enclosures, which can be seen in the images of my workshop:

http://www.robertwittig.net/workshop.html

This way I can install additional new hard drives (and remove those
same hard drives when necessary), to create additional partitions and
mount points, when and where they might be needed.

Also, the data on those hard drives can quickly and easily be moved
from one machine to another, for various Elitist reasons.

One can also run as many different operating systems as they wish, all
on a single machine without messing around with a boot loader (one at
a time, of course), as long as they also have IDE0 assigned to a
removable drive bay as well... and will be able to operate on
whichever datasets are mounted on the various hard drives/partitions
in play, with whichever OS they choose, to plug into IDE0.

> Go forth now youngling with your new found knowledge whilst I retreat
> to the Most Excellent Halls of Elitistia to contemplate teh n00bz and
> the intricacies of my most Elitist ponderings...
>
> Yours In Elitist Creepiness,
> You Betcha!
>
> The Dread Pirate Jeff
>

Will the Regular 'Meeting of The 31337' at the Most Excellent Halls of
Elitistia be at the same time as usual, this week? :)

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