[openbeos] Re: For R1 or R2: /home on separate partition?
- From: "Jonathan Tarbox" <jtarbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:02:04 -0600
as mentioned many times, this version of OpenBeOS R1 is only duplicating
BeOS R5. Multi-user support is in the realm of the Glasselevator mailing
list (aka OpenBeOS R2)
-jtarbox
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Tijssen" <rob.tijssen@xxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 4:45 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: For R1 or R2: /home on separate partition?
> Hello,
>
> What about the possibility to choose where you want to install the
different
> parts of the os (on wich partition)
> Appz/Home/demo/drivers/mail/users (multiusers)?!?
>
> greetz,
>
> Ro
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Reid" <reide@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:19 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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