/home or /home/username in fstab?

**Dswissmiss** · 09-30-2004, 03:50 AM

Hi guys,

I have my /home on a seperate partition. After installing a few different distros along side it, I noticed that a lot of configuration files were saved on /home, and also /home/username, which created a lot of confusion and some problems. So I decided to delete all hidden files from both /home and /home/username (a lot of the files were the same, just from different distros) and reinstall linux.

This time around I mounted /home before my install, and now have a fresh gentoo install with a user account at /home/username.

I'm trying to prevent hidden files from appearing all over the place, and only want them to appear on my own account at /home/username, so I was wondering if I need to have /home/username as a mountpoint in fstab, or if /home suffices.

Thanx
Dswissmiss

**pbharris** · 09-30-2004, 04:21 AM

hello,
use fstab only to mount independent file systems, e.g. partitions, nfs...
i do have a /home/ and a /home/pbharris/ - but each is a seperate partition.
hth

**Compunuts** · 10-03-2004, 07:38 AM

Whatever Paul said plus use only /home for fstab unless you are specifying separate partition for specific purposes.

For example, if you want the whole partition /hdc ( the master on secondary IDE ) to be used only for /home/yourname, then you would use /home/yourname as your mount point in fstab.