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-mkpersistenthome(1)
-===================
-
-Name
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-mkpersistenthome - create persistent home directory
-
-Synopsis
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-
-mkpersistenthome
-
-About
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-
-You have a local partition you would like to use as your home-directory? Just
-use the interactive script called 'mkpersistenthome'. It will either create a
-file named grml.img on the specified partition or create a partition using the
-ext2 filesystem (you can specify the option in a dialog inside the program).
-grml.img is a loopback device which size you can specify manually. It is
-possible to scan through the partitions to identify the appropriate partition.
-To use a home-directory located on your hard-drive use the appropriate boot
-parameter on bootprompt:
-
- home=/dev/sda3 => use /dev/sda3 as the homepartition
- home=scan => scan through the available partitions and search for file grml.img
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-Use persistent home directory
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-You want to use a persistent home directory which includes all the files located
-in $HOME. Use the script mkpersistenthome to create such a persistent home
-directory. You have the options to either use a specific partition as your home
-directory or add a loopback file named grml.img on the specified partition (the
-default).
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-TIP: /dev/external in the partition selection of mkpersistenthome is an usb
-device without partitions. /dev/external1 corresponds to the first partition on
-an usb device (usually an usb stick).
-
-After running the script mkpersistenthome you can use the boot parameter home to
-activate the home directory. If you are using the option with the loopback file
-(grml.img) you can boot via:
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- grml home=scan
-
-which will scan through the partitions and if a file grml.img is found it will
-be mounted as your $HOME-directory. If you want to use a partition as your home
-directory specify the device as an option. If you want to use /dev/sda2 as your
-$HOME boot via:
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- grml home=/dev/sda2
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-Notice: the files located in /etc/skel will be copied to the partition (but will
-not overwrite any files).
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-Bugs
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-If you find a bug please report it. See link:http://grml.org/bugs/ for details
-about how to report bugs.
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-See also
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-grml-autoconfig(1), grml-autoconfig(8), restore-config(1), save-config(1)
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-Author
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-(c) 2005++, Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>