[openbeos] Re: For R1 or R2: /home on separate partition?
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:16:47 +0100 (MET)
>
> I think having a separate drive for /home is a really good idea, and
> a workaround should be put into the boot process to be able to handle
> this. I didn't realize it didn't already work that way. It should
> be made possible to mount just about everything from some other
> partition,
> excluding a few obviously necessary system bits.
I think it would be beneficial to change the current R5 directory
structure for OpenBeOS R1.
There could be a directory "common" or whatever which is holding the
current config stuff (not the settings, but drivers etc. - users
shouldn't be able to have their own drivers; doesn't make that much
sense either). Let "/boot/home" be a link to that directory, so that it
won't break any of the current apps (of course you could also just
change the meaning of the current home directory).
Then there could be an additional "/boot/users/baron" directory (or
symlink) where the actual user data and configs are stored.
That's an extension that will barely take any (more) time to code, but
will move the directory structure to be able to fully support multiple
users - just on disk, I don't want to restart that discussion.
Adios...
Axel.
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