[conspire] Creating Home Partition

[David E. Fox]

> when I do it using gparted the 2 choooses are primary and extended and
> logical is grayed out. 
> Hdb1  Kanotics 17gb

Juhn - here's another thought. It is probably less optimal but may
suffice in a pinch. If you have more space in hdb3, and you think you'll
be using hdb1 (kanotix) for quite sometime, you could make the 'home' in
/dev/hdb3 (ubuntu) 'point' (or more properly), link to, the 'home' in
kanotix (hdb1), but it's a little bit tricky.

For instance, I have googleearth stuff linked onto a /tmp partition from
my 'home' directory, simply because there isn't enough space to home to
store all that stuff.

In my home directory, I have entries like:

x at m206-157:~/.googleearth$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dfox dfox 23 2007-02-25 16:50 Cache ->
/tmp/.googleearth/Cache
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dfox dfox 27 2007-02-25 16:50 crashlogs ->
/tmp/.googleearth/crashlogs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dfox dfox 11 2007-04-14 14:21 instance-running-lock ->
/proc/28505
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dfox dfox 37 2007-02-25 16:50 myplaces.backup.kml ->
/tmp/.googleearth/myplaces.backup.kml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dfox dfox 30 2007-02-25 16:50 myplaces.kml ->
/tmp/.googleearth/myplaces.kml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dfox dfox 34 2007-02-25 16:50 myplaces.kml.tmp ->
/tmp/.googleearth/myplaces.kml.tmp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dfox dfox 26 2007-02-25 16:50 Registry ->
/tmp/.googleearth/Registry
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dfox dfox 22 2007-02-25 16:50 Temp ->
/tmp/.googleearth/Temp

Note that basically the home 'googleearth' directory is linked to the
googleearth directory in /tmp (and /tmp is on another partition).

The reason this is tricky is that you have to fool things while you are
logged into kubuntu (in it's /etc/fstab) that the hdb1 partition is
really some other partition (such as /storage) --- use something that
isn't part of the file system tree, to avoid ubuntu stomping on kanotix.

I'm going to CC this back to the conspire mailing list - so that others
amy chime in on this and come up with better mechanics (or to say that
repartitioning in the long run will be a win).

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