Mounting /home on a partition's directory
Paul Sladen
ubuntu at paul.sladen.org
Sat May 28 11:38:30 UTC 2005
On Sat, 28 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Gábor Iglói wrote:
> I know I can put my home folder on a different partition from where /
> is with e.g mount /home /dev/hda6.
mount [partition] [where]
eg.
mount /dev/hda6 /home
> But is there a way to mount home on a subfolder of that partition e.g
> /home on /mnt/hda6/linuxhomes/home?
Can't quite follow, but I /think/ you're trying to do the following. This
method is a bit of a pain since you need to delete the '/home' mount point
and to make way for the symlink:
mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6
rmdir /home
ln -s /home /mnt/hda6/linuxhomes/home
A slightly easier and better oute is just to symlink the individual users'
home directories (probably the solution you want):
mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6
ln -s /home/alice /mnt/hda6/linuxhomes/home/alice
ln -s /home/betty /mnt/hda6/linuxhomes/home/betty
...
If you're doing this for more than a couple of users, then the automounter
('autofs') does the mounting+symlinking automatically when the directory is
accessed.
-Paul
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