Re: /home on its own partition
- From: Will Kemp <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:51:46 +0100
Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:05:19 +0100, Folderol wrote:
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Martin Gregorie
<martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:55:45 +0100, Will Kemp wrote:Yes. Had to a few times in the past, both for the gnome desktop and kde
chris wrote:Presumably these, like the Pictures, Documents,Downloads,....
Justin C wrote:Yes, that's true. I've never had any problems with it really. But,
On 2009-04-02, Will Kemp <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:You have to be careful if you boot between different distros using
David Cowie wrote:That's a very interesting method. I usually have / /home /var and
My /home directory is on a separate partition from the rest ofI've done this more times than i care to remember. Nowadays, in
the OS.
Am I right in thinking that, in the absence of operator error, I
can perform a clean OS installation without nuking /home ? I have
SuSE 10.1, a SuSE 11.1 disc, and my DVD writer is being annoying.
the era or large, cheap hard drives, i always format a new system
with two 15GB partitions which i use for the root directories for
alternate installations. E.g., '/' for Fedora 9 was /dev/sda4 and
'/' for Fedora 10 was /dev/sda1 (leaving the F9 / directory
intact). For the next installation, '/' is /dev/sda4 again, etc...
/usr on their own partition, and an extra partition isn't going to
hurt.
the same /home partition and usernames. Config data between the two
in places like ~/.kde will be over-written by one or both and may
cause conflicts.
When I do this I create a separate, temporary username for the new
distro and when I'm happy with everything in the new distro and move
the user accounts over.
Obviously, moving between different versions of the same distro is
simpler than moving between different distros.
after using Fedora since it started and Red Hat before that, i've
just changed to Ubuntu - and i decided it was a good time to start
from scratch with the dot files.
directories that are set up at login time the first time you use a new
directory. If this is the case you should be able to tidy a directory
simply by deleting any ~/.files and ~/.directories that you haven't
manually edited and then logging in again.
Has anybody tried this?
when they managed to get totally confused. Always worked for me :)
You haven't, by any chance, found a way of preventing some or all of the
Capitalised directories from appearing have you? I really don't want them
in some of my more specialised logins.
In general, files and directories that get automatically added to the
home directory when you add a user are in /etc/skel . Anything you add
to that will be automatically added to a new home directory (and, of
course, anything you remove from /etc/skel , won't get added).
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