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bnorling72@yahoo.com

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Registered: 2011-06-06

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Change home mount in usb install

I want to change the way /home is mounted in a usb install. I want it to be part of the rootfs.gz at boot time instead of mounting the usb device.

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Re: Change home mount in usb install

You won't be able to save changes to /home then, is that what you want?

bnorling72@yahoo.com

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Registered: 2011-06-06

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Re: Change home mount in usb install

Yes,

   I want the entire system to run off the ramdrive unless I decide to make a change and do a tazusb writefs.  The goal here is to make completely bulletproof embedded device.

Thanks.

pankso

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Registered: 2026-06-27

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Re: Change home mount in usb install

Hi,

So you have to modify the usb key bootloader: syslinux. On the USB media you have a boot/ directory with syslinux/syslinux.cfg wich set home=. Just remove it and home will be in RAM.

bnorling72@yahoo.com

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Registered: 2011-06-06

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Re: Change home mount in usb install

That pretty much worked, however..

  It's not isolinux, its extlinux

  I modified extlinux.conf and took out the home=9d1ae70d-27bd-49d2-a549-1ce01997baf8 and it booted with home not mounted on the usb.

  There is not enough space left in the ramdisk for me to populate /home with the neccesary files.  How do I increase the size of the ramdisk?

bnorling72@yahoo.com

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Registered: 2011-06-06

Posts: 10

Re: Change home mount in usb install

Sorry,

I inadvertantly filled up my ramdisk with garbage.  I have 100 megs free.  Plenty of space. 

Thanks for the help