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Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 11:15 AM Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

> On 04/21/2022 08:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:21 AM Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I am not upgrading in place.
> >>
> >> I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a
> >> different partition.
> >>
> >> I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on
> >> its current partition.
> >>
> >> I'm aware of cautions about upgrading in-place  cf
> >> [
> >>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
> >> ]
> >>
> >> Are there things to be aware of when using the same /home partition on
> >> both?
> >>
> >
> > My approach to this is to create (and use) a separate Partition, which I
> > call /bighome.  When I create users (I use several, based on Function), I
> > separately create a Directory on /bighome, and change its ownership to
> the
> > User.
> >
> > Each Partition has its own /home, but mainly for the .dot files.
> Anything
> > that is likely to be long term is on /bighome.
> >
> > This /bighome has survived from Squeeze to Bookworm, as well as a number
> of
> > Ubuntu releases.
> >
>
> Sounds interesting. Do you have multiple versions of Debian installed at
> the same time or have you upgraded a single copy of Debian several times?
>

All of the above. For example, on my tower, I have 9 Debians, two Ubuntu
occurences, and Mint 20.  This includes two Bullseye occurrences, one on
xfce and one on KDE.  But there is only one /bighome, used by all of these.

> Hope this helps.
> >
> > Kenneth Parker
>

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Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 14:30 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-21 14:40 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-21 15:00 +0200
    Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 17:00 +0200
      Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-21 17:20 +0200
        Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 20:30 +0200
          Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 23:00 +0200
    Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-21 22:10 +0200
      CMOS clock (was: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-04-21 23:30 +0200
        Re: CMOS clock (was: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-22 02:40 +0200
        Re: CMOS clock (was: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-22 07:30 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-04-21 15:00 +0200
    Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 16:10 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2022-04-21 15:50 +0200
    Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 17:20 +0200
      Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2022-04-21 18:50 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2022-04-21 17:30 +0200
  Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 19:30 +0200
  [Path forward] WAS: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3 Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-22 11:00 +0200

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