Subj : Installing or re-installing mbse
To : Vince Coen
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sat Apr 05 2014 11:53 am
Hello Vince!
Saturday April 05 2014 13:56, Vince Coen wrote to Rj Clay:
VC> Your setting of usr/lib is no better and if anything worse if you are
VC> a user who splits the system in two elements, e.g., / for system with
VC> a partition of say 12 - 20 Gb and /home that is mounted to / as the
VC> second partition.
I partitioned my MBSE system with /opt as the second partition. That way MBSE
isn't disturbed when I upgrade to a newer version of Slackware. As you say
below, all I need to do is create user accounts on the new / partition with the
same uid's etc.
VC> This allows /home to be placed on any version or distro without
VC> changing any user settings other than creating the user accounts tied
VC> to specific uid's etc.
VC> As I run 3 - 4 as well as additional drives and now am installing a
VC> SSD I do not want mbse to be on the root/boot partition.
Mine never has been. I've always setup /opt as a separate partition.
VC> This also in the event of a major system failure I can remove the
VC> drive containing /home and plug it in to my laptop with the users pre
VC> installed and can run the system from there until I get the server box
VC> back up and running.
With my setup, the complete BBS is on a separate partition. In your changes,
are you still creating BBS user home directories under the MBSE_ROOT directory?
ie: $MBSE_ROOT/home/username When upgrading to 1.0.2, will we have to rename
/opt/mbse to /home/mbsebbs and then create a symlink from /opt/mbse to
/home/mbsebbs?
