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You can definitely mount your /home accross many machines. It won't really work for the root directory though unless you set up a specialized net booting environment. The reason for this is your init program usually (if you don't netboot) sets up your networking and it's located on the root filesystem (usually in /sbin). As I said, you can get around this with netbooting. It's perfectly possible to run a Unix machine with no disks on any kind at all, if you have the proper hardware and know how to set it up.
Originally posted by tobysaville well i was wondering if you could just have a single home dir that you could use on multiple machines.
Sure, at my work we have all users home directories on one central server. For the Linux users they use NFS which then is mounted across the network, so no matter what machine they login, they have the same home directory, etc.
This is actually also the same server that all Windows users My Documents is stored, using Samba for them. Most don't even realize their My Documents is on a server on the network..
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