[xen-tools] Re: Seperate /home?

[Terry Churchill]

Hi,

On 10 Jan 2007, at 12:55, Steve Kemp wrote:

>   Basically no.  I think that it is a neat idea, but it opens the
>  slippery slope to people wanting separate /var, /usr, other  
> partitions
>  which is hard to handle.

Couldn't agree more.

>   However there is some good news!  If you wanted to add support for
>  this you could easily do so in a role script.  If you were to create
>  /etc/xen-tools/role.d/seperate-home you could invoke xen-create-image
>  with "--role=separate-home" which could do the job.

<SNIP>

>   Does that seem like it would be sufficient for your needs?

Absolutely, I was looking to scratch an itch and was looking in the  
wrong place. Thanks for both yours and Henning's swift replies.

-- 
Terry Churchill

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