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danxaz

Member

Registered: 2012-02-22

Posts: 7

Setting /home directory

How do I set the /home directory so that I can save settings and packages and boot up quickly with a live cd?

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Setting /home directory

Hello danxaz,

If I remember (I don't use LiveCD for a long time, it's easier with LiveUSB) insert a USB key and boot the LiveCD.

At prompt (boot:) type home=usb and SliTaz will create the /home directory on it. That's all.

Oh! I forgot: the key must be formated ext3 with Gparted (it has never worked when the key was formated with the line command  #  mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1; don't ask me, I don't know why).

CéeL

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Setting /home directory

Better use fdisk -l to determine the partition you want /home to be mounted on.

Use home=sda1,sda2,sda3,etc..

home=usb equals home=sda1 which is not always what you want.

/home partition has to be formated to ext3 or another linux filesystem.

If /home is formated to fat32 or ntfs it breaks Xauth login.