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ukbrian
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My partitioning method
« Thread Started on Apr 10, 2012, 5:40am »

I just made this post on another forum which might be of help

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Another question. As the /home partition is on an extended partition, is it possible, without a lot of technical knowledge, to use that for both my current OS and Solus?

The method I have used for several years and Ikey and others have posted that they do the same is to use a NTFS data partition and put your /home in the root partition with a symbolic link in home to the data partition, I mount this in fstab using "LABEL" instead of UUID for this. [image]

You must also create a folder in home with the same name as you use in fstab
I use 500-data because it appears as the first folder, at the top, in home in thunar.
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You must also create a launcher pointing at it and also change your prefered applications to point that way.
If you paste this into a new text file and name it "firefox.desktop" and put it at "/home/user/.local/share/applications" it should appear in your menu but you might have to change the "exec=" and "icon=" lines to suite your setup.

Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Firefox (ESR)
Comment=
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Exec=/home/user/500-data/firefox/firefox
Icon=/home/user/500-data/firefox/icons/mozicon128.png
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false

This is my gparted with 2 HDD's and a SSD, all the OS's have full access to the data drive including Windows.
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I use this browser http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html unzipped onto my data drive so all Linux OS's use the same firefox install and profiles, Window 7 and XP use their own install folder but still use the same firefox profiles.

I find these things very handy to slide different HDD's in http://www.cclonline.com/product/54784/I....-Rack/ HDD0516/

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Re: My partitioning method
« Reply #1 on Apr 11, 2012, 8:40pm »

Interesting. You have 3+ os's and want to share the ntfs data drives between all of them and at the same time use the exact same firefox setup. I have only xp and saline and would actually like to reinstall xp but am not sure about fixing grub again after the xp install. I have 3 sata3 drives with the largest 2 having 2.5tb of space and modifying fstab is the only way to use them. My smallest has 4 partitions with xp and saline.

With firefox I just extract the very latest (v11) targz in my user folder and hopefully by recovering the .mozilla folder and with the febe xpi addon I can get up and running with little help. In xp I use palemoon portable so essentially they are the same except for the odd bookmark changes but I rarely like to run windows if I can at all help it. I even installed vbox with xp but it runs slower than I would like and won't recognize a flash drive when I plug it in. Even worse it can't see the data drives at all, it only sees itself

I do not like virtualbox all that much but at least I don't have to reboot for the occasional xp forays.

Next time I will use a 2gig swap. I could change it's size but I am concerned it will screw the boot process up.

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Re: My partitioning method
« Reply #2 on Apr 11, 2012, 9:57pm »

Fixing grub is actually rather easy with SalineOS, just boot up the live dvd/usb and run Applications > System > grub-doctor and then follow the prompts on the screen.

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Re: My partitioning method
« Reply #3 on Apr 12, 2012, 4:42am »

Apr 11, 2012, 9:57pm, Anthony Nordquist wrote:

Fixing grub is actually rather easy with SalineOS, just boot up the live dvd/usb and run Applications > System > grub-doctor and then follow the prompts on the screen.

+1
Grub Doctor is wonderful. I would not fret about gaining an extra 2 GB by changing your swap partition, it's not worth the trouble.
There's also a lot of app configuration files stored in home as well as any data you put there so I always include home in the root partition.
I always thought I was kinda unique in my use of data partitions until quite recently I found two devs who use the same methods.
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I have 3 sata3 drives with the largest 2 having 2.5tb of space and modifying fstab is the only way to use them.

Have you tried gigolo?

I think partitioning is a grey area for a lot of folk so I think I'll do a video of solving your troubles that might help others.
I will video a reinstall of vbox and try and solve your flash problems.
Then I will set up a virtualbox with your partitions to work on.

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« Reply #4 on Apr 13, 2012, 12:33pm »

Thanks anthony. Now that I figured out how to fully utilize vbox with ukbrian's help I will probably leave the dual boot XP install (without internet) alone for now. God knows how much fun it is installing windows-not

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