I created user seti and mkdir seti. I made /seti directory permision user=seti and group=seti.

I added /user/dave (me) to group seti.

seti works fine. Downloads, wroks on stuff, etc.

seti attempts to use /dev/hda1; I want seti to use /dev/hdb1 (200 GB storage drive).

When restarting seti by using terminal ./boincmgr I get the GUI but it does not "see" the previous work done during this week's test.

Questions:

1. How to make seti use only /dev/hdb

2. Location and howto change script to retrieve previous data.

3. OK to kill user seti and reinstall under user dave? Which is better?

TIA

Dave

seti attempts to use /dev/hda1; I want seti to use /dev/hdb1 (200 GB storage drive).

When restarting seti by using terminal ./boincmgr I get the GUI but it does not "see" the previous work done during this week's test.

Questions:

1. How to make seti use only /dev/hdb

2. Location and howto change script to retrieve previous data.

3. OK to kill user seti and reinstall under user dave? Which is better?

As far as I know BOINC uses whatever directory it is installed in. And it makes subdirectories for each project that you attach. If you want them to use /dev/hdb1 then mount the drive and make the /seti directory on that drive. Install them there, or just mount the drive to the /seti directory if nothing else is going to be on /dev/hdb1. Be aware that if you mount a drive to an existing directory anything that already exists will not be available until you unmount the drive.

Boincmgr is a GUI that talks to the boinc client. Start the client first(I use the 'run_client' script), then start boincmgr.

It doesn't really matter what user you have running BOINC, any user can start boincmgr and control the program.

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David Stites
Pullman, WA USA