mounting other partitions to /home

mcd · 08-28-2003, 12:59 PM

i recently tried to mount a vfat partition (with mp3's etc) to my /home/usr directory. it basically crashed x for that usr, so i created a new user and other stuff to try and fix it, and eventually realized it was just that mount problem. as soon as i mounted it back to /mnt/files everything was fine. does anyone know why this creates difficulties? i know it's not a big deal, but it would be more convenient to have this storage readily accessible in my home directory.

trickykid · 08-28-2003, 01:25 PM

Was it already mounted in /mnt or anything.. ??

Should have problems if you make the necessary changes in your fstab file to have it mount to an empty directory in your users /home directory...

michaelk · 08-28-2003, 01:39 PM

If you create a directory say /home/user/files then you should be able to mount the vfat partition to that directory.

I assume you really did mount the vfat partition to /home/user. If so then all files under the /home/user would of been inaccessable and there are hidden files in your home directory that x uses.

mcd · 08-28-2003, 01:50 PM

i see, my mount directory files/ replaced usr/ within /home - so if i just create a new directory in /home/usr and mount in that i should be ok?

michaelk · 08-28-2003, 06:29 PM

Correct