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?

Andrew

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