USB Pen Drive User

[Scott Elcomb]

> Why don't you just mount your pen drive on your home?  IOW,
> 
>     # mount /dev/sda1 /home/scott

Lol, because it was too simple.  Didn't see it.  ;)

> assuming your pen drive shows up as sda and has a single partition.  With
> this approach, there's no need to copy any files back and forth, they're just
> there.

> For this to work well, you will need to put a real file system on the pen
> drive, i.e. ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc. instead of msdos.

> Of course, this approach is only workable if you have administrative control
> over the systems in question.  If you don't, you can still benefit from
> separating configuration from the rest of your home.  The approach I've taken
> is to move all my config files into an sub-directory of my home which I've
> called "rc".  I then do one of three (application dependent) things, in order
> of preference:
> 
[snip]
> 
> I'm slowly automating all this so that when I login, I can just:
> 
>     % cd rc
>     % make
> 
> Anyway, if you reorganize your home in this way, you can now just put rc on
> your pen drive.  You can either mount it directly:
> 
>     # mount /dev/sda1 /home/scott/rc
> 
> or just rsync or copy it.
> 

I haven't picked the drive up yet - fortunately I thought to ask first! 
Thank you for the thoroughness in your response!

Regards,
Scott.

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Scott Elcomb
http://psema4.gotdns.com
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avalonweb/

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