Creating seperate /home partition?

X_user · 06-25-2007, 11:47 AM

Hi all

I started installing DSL on some old laptops and figured that I could manually create separate /root and /home partitions. Of course making the actual partitions worked, so I figured that simply editing fstab would make DSL mount the /home partition automatically, however, it DOESNT.

It does if I open a root shell and mount manually using
#mount -a

but this will certainly not work for my purposes. I need it to be automatic.

Does anyone know how this can be fixed?

b0uncer · 06-25-2007, 12:19 PM

Make sure the fstab line has the option word "auto". For example (off the top of my head, but note the place where 'auto' is):

Code:

/dev/hda1 /home ext3 defaults,auto 0 0

X_user · 06-25-2007, 01:18 PM

I was looking at the man page and the option "defaults" includes the following options:

Quote:

defaults
Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec,auto,
and async.

However, I still tried it, but no luck

The only other quick solution I came up with was adding a boot script.
STEPS:
write boot script based off of /etc/init.d/skeleton
have execute /bin/mount -a
then
#update-rc.d script defaults

I think this problem has to do with the DSL master boot script?