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sk8r776
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:24 am Post subject: /home directory location. |
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I'm wondering if it is possible to host the /home partition on a networked file server. like schools and businesses do, and have just a minimal OS on a terminal PC.
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DaggyStyle
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:34 am Post subject: Re: /home directory location. |
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| sk8r776 wrote: | I'm wondering if it is possible to host the /home partition on a networked file server. like schools and businesses do, and have just a minimal OS on a terminal PC.
Thanks for any help. |
yes, it was done in the university I was studying at
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depontius
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:35 am Post subject: |
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I have /home mounted over nfsv4 on my home systems. There are a few cautionary things you might do, though. I also have a /local filesystem, which looks stunningly like /home, in other words, every user has their own directory there. Then with /home not mounted, I created a symlink for every user back to that user's space on /local. Now if the system is booted without the nfs being available, everyone has some minimal working environment.
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sk8r776
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks very much for the quick replies. PXE is exactly what im looking for. |
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