On 18/03/18 11:32, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Greetings! I have separated my /home file system from root so I can install new systems without clobbering it. To make it most useful is there any way I can mount, link, whatever, it so that it appears to be an extension of, or included in, /home? That is not just another mount on the root fs. TIA Dennis
Are you trying to separate your own (for example) /home/dennis while leaving other /home subdirectories on the /home filesystem? You can do this by mounting /home/dennis under /home. Just make a mount point /home/dennis and add fstab entries. Nested mount points work, and are the way other filesystems are mounted on root. The only tricky part is that your /home/dennis should still contain lost+found owned by root (if ext4) and you will need to move all files and directories into the root of the /home/dennis filesystem.
I recommend using a mount point with root:root ownership and no access to others to prevent unintentional modification while /home/dennis is not mounted.
Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand