[luau] thumb drive

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Vince Hoang wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:30:56PM -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: 
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>
>>If your /home directory is not installed in a separate
>>partition, but as part of the root partition, then this becomes
>>a two-step process:
>>
>>mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
>>
>>mount --bind /mnt/home /home
>>    
>>
>
>It can still be a single process. The extra step shows off
>the bind option, which is a rather useful, but in this case,
>unnecessary.
>
Thanks for the feedback.  I am sure you're aware of this but many 
Windows desktop users probably are not.  The distinction is, w/o the 
bind option, your /home directory would reside in the /mnt directory.  
Whereas, with it, your "movable" /home directory now "replaces", or 
"masks", the original /home directory on the host machine (thus allowing 
you to use your own profile and work on your own data when running a 
program on the host machine).  This feature is very useful for small 
offices when, e.g., you have several machines that are not networked but 
you want to have a consistent, or "master", home directory.

Wayne