Subj : Installing or re-installing  mbse
To   : All
From : Vince Coen
Date : Wed Mar 12 2014 01:18 pm

Hello All!

Having been using mbse since the days of v0.33 I have until 2012 used one
partition for the whole of the Linux system.

Since then I have used a boot partition (12GB or 20GB) containing /

and another partition of 500GB or 1TB to hold /home that is mounted to /

Ok so far?

Well maybe not.

Building a new system drive (3TB WD Red - no not recommended as only 5400 rpm,
not that the paperwork says that!),

I created it as a GPT, installed Win 7 X64 with 1Tb, then three 20GB Linux 
boot
partitions, 4GB swap, 1TB home, 500Gb Win backup and the remainding  unused.

Installed Mageia v4 to the first boot part. and Mageia v3 to the next.
This in itself has problems booting to Windows as I get a sector 0 error,
however I transgress, Now installed mbse (onto the M v4 part) along with all
the other s/w needed and again linked mbse to /home.

Now the problem: With the new drive mounted as well as the older drive I
cleared out the old mbse directory having copied its contents to the new 
drive.

This resulted in both old and new drive having the mbse directory deleted.

Not good as I had no choice to revert back to an older drive with a 2 year old
copy and currently still rebuilding the system.

I then went into the setup to change all of the paths to point to /home/mbse
including all of the file groups & areas, ditto for the message base along 
with
everything else BUT not all moves as the logs and some other stuff cannot be
moved using this approach, but the idea is to only have the programs etc on 
opt
therefore reducing the mbse storage requirements.


This brings me to the point:

I would like to reinstall mbse so that it installs to /home/mbse and NOT /opt.

This issue applies to anyone who wishes to use a boot partition and a seperate
one for /home.

IS there a working solution to do this at the point of building the mbse
system, e.g., ./configure&make&make install ?

I do not wish to have to do this again!

In any event my attempt of moving all the paths I can to /home/mbse does not
fully work (see above as some paths at /opt/mbse are not changeable (var/log 
to
name but one).


A very tired,


Vince

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