[LBo] Permanent /home partition

[Stefan Waidele jun.]

Jisao wrote:
> [...]
> At the risk of asking the obvious, does it mean that I can mount a partition 
> in a subdirectory, like /home/mushu or instead of /mushu?  

I am glad you took that risk.

The short answes is: Yes, you can.

The long answer:
You can pick any directory you like as the mount point.
/mushu, /home/mushu, /home/jisao/mushu, 
/germany/will/win/the/soccer/worldcup, /w/h/a/t/e/v/e/r

Many distros do this for removable media, which they mount in 
/media/usbstick, /media/cdrom, ...

Let's say you have /dev/hda5 mounted as / - root.
You could mount /dev/hda6 as /home
Let's assume that hda6 has a directory named 'mushu', then you could 
mount /dev/hda7 as /home/mushu. This could go on until you run out of 
partitions.

Note:
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The directories you use as mount-points need not be empty. Whatever is 
stored in those directories will be "hidden" by the mounted filesystem 
and "reappear" after unmounting.

I hope I did not confuse anybody too much.
Best you try it out with a couple of (non-system)-directories and the 
"mount"-command. It's nice :)

Stefan


> (Mind you, /mushu is a great name, as no distribution/developer uses the 
> word in their distribution.  So I alway know exactly what it is).

MUSHU - Multi User System Home Use
or even recursive
MUSHU - Mushu Unstable Sanity Horribly Unavailable
or
does it have a "meaning" ?

:)

Stefan

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