On Thursday 01 June 2006 19:02, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Ok Ken.... you're not arguing with the OP on this... but me.
So he copies all of his current /home to be /data (or just remounts it) and then leaves his 'home' in the root. What has he gained? He's been separated from all the things I mentioned above.... mail, bookmarks, etc. They are still there on /data but they are not easily used from there.
And the next time he builds a new system what does he do? Now he COPIES his home dir over to somewhere else? Just don't think this is a good plan and not many of us would follow it.
I always do a clean install, but I skip every other point release, using apt to stay up to date (I'll have to find another solution for the apt part ;-( ) I keep some data in my home directory (own partition), but I also have a /common partition for music, photos, wallpapers, software, etc, as well as a separate partition for my development stuff. The only stuff I keep in ~ is in Desktop/, some stuff in Documents/, and the few important hidden files like my mail archive. Anyway, I wrote a simple rsync script that I use to mirror all the important stuff (as noted above) on my computer to an old PII. This gets run weekly as part of my backup strategy. Bottom line is I could do a fresh install, and the only stuff I would loose is my KDE settings. I would tell the OP to make a full backup, just to be safe. Then can mirror just the important stuff to restore after the fresh install. Mark -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com