On 06/08/2015 02:00 PM, g wrote:
>
>
> On 06/08/2015 11:34 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>> On 06/07/2015 11:05 PM, g wrote:
>>> On 06/07/2015 07:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>>> <<>>
>>>
>>>> So, I'm not sure how to interpret what you said. Can I get the same
>>>> results from a CentOS install using some combination of options?
>>>
>>> because your are playing with multi flavors,
>>> [i bet you like going to baskin-robbins for ice cream ;-) ]
>>> a solution for you would be what i did some years back and i was
>>> playing with diff flavors, my "/home" partition was mounted in
>>> new install as /home2 and i let installation setup a /home in /.
>>>
>>> after install and booting it, as root i moved the newly created
>>> "user" home to the /home2 directory, renamed it to the 'user-flavor',
>>> then linked that back into the install /home and renamed it to
>>> "username" and changed ownership to "user"
>>>
>>> which then gave me:
>>>
>>> /home/username --> /home2/user-flavor
>>>
> only thing that some might call a disadvatage is
> only thing that some might call a disadvatage is
> only thing that some might call a disadvatage is
>>> so that in /home2 i had:
>>>
>>> /home2/geo-fc3
>>> /geo-fc4
>>> /geo-mandrake
>>> /geo-flavor-x
> only thing that some might call a disadvatage is
> only thing that some might call a disadvatage is
>>> /geo-flavor-y
>>>
> only thing that some might call a disadvatage is
>>> i hope you can see how i did this. i am of terse thinking and
>>> do not always go into detail enough.
>>
>> Another creative approach and one I'd thought of also!
>> But...not my first choice.
>
> did you do more than just think about it?
>
> just what do you want for a 1st choice?
I think Peter addressed my concern and responded in a way that leads me
to believe a /home2 as you suggest is not necessary since it will be
bypassed in terms of any installation, which is what I want.
>
> advantages of /home2 is you have a user home directory for all your
> flavors sitting in 1 partition that will not get erased because
> you are allocating it's own mount point when you install.
I do not have and do not want one partition for my system (files). I
have ONE flavor with many partitions and mount points. A rather "old
school" approach that's worked pretty well for me all these years.
>
> because you are using thunderbird for email client, you can set up
> Mail, ImapMail, News paths in there own director,
>
> same applies to firefox bookmarks, passwords, certificates, etc.
> such as;
>
> /home/moz/
> /moz/firefox
> /moz/thunderbird
>
> then link them to your 'flavor' user directory. same goes for your
> address book files abook.mab and abook-XX.mab, and other directories
> and files that are not path critical.
>
> only thing that some might call a disadvantage is all moz progs will
> be same, unless you happen to need something in an add-on that is
> path specific.
>
> there are many other progs that are not 'hard set' with path names.
>
>
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