force knx live hd install use /home part?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Taavi Burns wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:44:52AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
>> Does anyone know if knoppix 3.3 live (hd install) can be forced to use
>> different partitions? The debian-knoppix user list is being rebuilt so I
>> can't post there. This is not critical. I only wanted this so that if
>> there was aever a problem with my / directory I could re-install without
>> formatting my /home directory. However I do have an hdb drive and a
>> networked second machine that I can back up /home to if a separate /home
>> directory is impossible in knoppix live hd install/ I just want to know.
>
> You can also manually move the /home/* files to /dev/hda7 and adjust the
> /etc/fstab file to automount /dev/hda7 to /home. Next time you install,
> you'll just have to update /etc/fstab.  :)

In my experience knoppix scripts rewrite /etc/fstab at each boot. This 
means that any changes you make to /etc/ftsab will be washed down at the 
next reboot. You need to tinker a lot wih scripts to fix this imho.

Peter
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