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Re: Upgrade Problem

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On 2019-01-07 02:56, John Crawley wrote:
> On 06/01/2019 00.26, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Friday, January 04, 2019 08:21:30 PM David Wright wrote:
>>> On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 14:02:27 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>> 
>>>> Having babbled for the last two paragraphs, I'll close buy saying 
>>>> that
>>>> I will revert to the entire installation on the same partition.
>>> 
>>> I would advise you to keep your separate /home partition. Except for
>>> dot files/directories, they're independent of the OS. It makes
>>> reinstallation and upgrades a lot easier.
>> 
>> I hink it is really inconvenient to have config information (basically 
>> the .
>> files) and what I call "real user data" (that is, documents, photos, 
>> videos,
>> ...) combined in the same directory with the config information 
>> hidden.
>> 
>> My solution: I create a separate top level directory (e.g. /<user> 
>> instead of
>> /home/<user>) and store all my "real user data" in /<user>, and let 
>> the OS and
>> application programs do what they want in /home/<user>.  When I 
>> upgrade or
>> move to a new machine, I move (well, copy) the content of /<user> but 
>> let the
>> new OS create and fool with a new /home/<user>.
> 
> Chime in to agree on that, but I use /data/<username>
> It really makes upgrades easier to have all that ...data in its own 
> partition.
> Multi-boots can share it too.

I've tended to make a soft link in /home/me to another disk.

mick

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Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 17:20 +0100
  Re: Upgrade Problem steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2019-01-04 17:50 +0100
    Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 18:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:20 +0100
          Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 21:50 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 22:20 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 23:10 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 23:40 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-05 15:50 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-05 10:20 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-05 02:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 23:10 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:10 +0100
    Re: Upgrade Problem Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 18:20 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 19:00 +0100
        Re: Upgrade Problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-01-04 19:20 +0100
          Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 20:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 22:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-05 02:30 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-01-05 04:20 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-05 10:30 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 16:30 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-01-07 04:00 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-08 15:40 +0100
  Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 19:30 +0100

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