[Lancaster] Technical question

[john]

If you create a directory under your home directory, you could mount it 
there directly. Just remember its going to mount the entire contents of 
hda1 under that directory.

Richard Robinson wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:03:57PM +0100, Ken Walton wrote:
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>>Anyway, what I wanted to know is this. I've got MEPIS on partition
>>hda3, and Ubuntu on hda1. If I do "mount /mnt/hda1" I can access the
>>Ubuntu partition, but I have to do it manually. What I want to know
>>is:
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>>1) How can I get hda1 to mount automatically in MEPIS
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>write a line into /etc/fstab - something like
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>/dev/hda1       /mnt/hda1           ext3    defaults        0       2
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>would mount hda1 on /mnt/hda1 automatically on boot (change ext3 if it's a
>different filesystem, of course). "man fstab" for the sordid detail.
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>>2) Can I connect the home directory of hda1 to the filesystem in the
>>home directory of MEPIS, so I don't have to wander quite so far to get
>>to my documents?
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>>I'm pretty sure it's possible, but I just don't know how! :-)
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>symbolic link ?
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>ln -s /mnt/hda1/home /home
>would probably _not_ do what you want, because that would hide the current contents
>of /home, showing only the hda1 ones. But
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>ln -s /mnt/hda1/home /home/hda1
>would cause all the user directories of hda1/home to appear under /home/hda1
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>ln -s /mnt/hda1/oldusername /home/newusername
>would cause the contents of oldusername's home directory on hda1 to appear
>under /home/newusername
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>and so on ...
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