[Fedora-livecd-list] Simple persistence idea, /home only

[Kai Engert]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:30 +0100, Kai Engert wrote:
>   
>> I've seen messages about complete persistence, which is, make sure all 
>> changes to the filesystem are persistent.
>>
>> However, for end user tasks it might be sufficient to offer persistence 
>> of the /home directory.
>>
>> Has the following idea been proposed already?
>> I figure it would be easy to do.
>>
>> During boot, scan for a partition with a given label, say, "fedoralivehome".
>> If present, that partition gets mounted as /home.
>> As a consequence, all user settings and documents are kept across boots.
>> An usb stick could be partitioned to have the second partition as /home.
>>
>> Does this idea make sense?
>>     
>
> I've thought about it before, the problem ends up being that you really
> don't want to use, eg, a fat filesystem for the home directory which
> makes it a little trickier.

I think it's ok to require an ext2/ext3 filesystem for fedoralivehome.

Kai

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