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Offline uggla

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Autodetect home
« on: July 30, 2010, 04:20:08 AM »
Hi!

It would be nice if TC could autodetect a persistent home during boot the same way it detects tce-drives. Is there a way to do this in current? If not, consider it a feature request. :)

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/Uggla

Offline curaga

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Re: Autodetect home
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2010, 04:33:11 AM »
Would do more harm than good IMO.

Consider that many of our users run several distros, it's often wanted that TC doesn't touch the HD unless told to. Scanning for /home would bring a lot of false positives.
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Offline uggla

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Re: Autodetect home
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2010, 11:44:49 AM »
At least any present /home/tc directory could be detected (autodetect could be turned off with a boot option).

Is there a way to use an autodetected tce as home?

/Uggla

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Autodetect home
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2010, 11:47:45 AM »
Why force the majority of users add a boot option to turn it off, when the minority can use a boot option to set home?

Offline uggla

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Re: Autodetect home
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2010, 12:47:05 PM »
Why force the majority of users add a boot option to turn it off, when the minority can use a boot option to set home?

I my mind it would be a good feature, but I might be wrong. If it is bad for the majority then just ignore it.

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