[openbeos] Re: For R1 or R2: /home on separate partition?
- From: "Jonathan Tarbox" <jtarbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:58:10 -0600
There are work-arounds that can be done about the add-ons folder under
config, like if it's seen that /boot/home is a different partition (be it on
the same drive or not) then mount it before scanning for more add-ons.
However, notice when you format a partition with BFS.. it's already got a
home directory. That's a default system folder on each bfs partition.
Anything in that home/Desktop folder is displayed on the desktop, etc. It'd
take a semi major change to BFS and that is not within the scope of OpenBeOS
R1 (which this mailing list is about). Might wanna take this to the
glasselevator mailing list instead.
-jtarbox
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Reid" <reide@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: For R1 or R2: /home on separate partition?
> Quoth Mark-Jan Bastian:
> >On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:31:27PM +0100, Michael Noisternig wrote:
> >> "Anton du Toit" <adutoit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 15.01.02 15:04:57:
> >> >
> >> >Just an idea - would it be possible to put /home on a separate
> >> >partition? So Partition 1 is OS only, and Partition 2 is user data
only.
> >>
> >> make a link to your home dir on your 2nd partition. ;-)
> >
> >This won't work, since the 2nd partition is not mounted during bootup,
> >so additional drivers and settings in ~/config are not accessible
> >until the tracker has mounted the 2nd partition.
> >
> >Another, maybe nicer solution would be a 'lock' on the systemfiles,
> >so that no application can put or change anything in /boot/beos, and
> >if an application tries, the OS pops up a password dialog to let that
> >application (and it's child processes) to override the protection,
> >until the application quits.
> >Implementing this lock in a general way for storing files in folder
> >that users want to keep private, is maybe nice too.
>
> What if someone does a complete reinstall including a format?
>
> 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.
>
> Drivers can be probed whenever they want anyways, so there shouldn't
> be a problem, as long as they're available when the other kits that
> need drivers start up, such as net kit or interface kit.
>
>
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