Any chance of change to boot code for opt and home to include folders?

[gordon64]

Hi
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pre-amble
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I decided to rebuild my partitions on hard drive to have both 32 and 64 distros unpacked and working on the same partition.

I am aware, I could have them on separate partitions.....but read on please.

corebook offer good explanation and examples of using boot code for a persistance tce dir in a specific location such as tce=/sda1/mydir
---my tce is found as tce=sda4/64tce

Secondly I don't need to specify a separate restore boot code as I am happy with mydata.tgz located at my current folder.

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my problem
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I tried to be smart, and use boot codes of home=sda4/64home opt=sda4/64opt and found this does not work.

The answer lies in corebook chapter 10.5 which states

Each bootcode takes either a drive name, a label, or an UUID

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my temporary solution
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I will just have to put opt=sda4 and home=sda4 and put 32 opt and home into a separate partition
opt may not grow much so could risk leaving it mydata but I don't want to do that to speed up shutdown and boot up

thanks for reading

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request bootcode
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opt=sda1/mydir
home=sda1/mydir

[gerald_clark]

Opt and home normally do not contain binaries, only scripts.
I suggest you keep it that way.
If you need directories with binaries, symlink them in bootlocal.sh.

[gordon64]

thanks for the quick reply

mark it as solved if you can.

cheers

[Misalf]

I have as well tried that because it seemed logic (which it is not, at least for /opt) and thought it would be worth implementing, but now I'm totally fine with having symlinks to big files or dirs in my backup, pointing to any subdir I want.