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Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

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On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 19:41:01 (+0000), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 09:15:50AM -0800, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Two problems:
> > 
> > terminals went funkity late tuesday, spent Wed-Thu trying to reboot, would not go beyond the 15 second mark rebooting. Finally ran the net installer in rescue mode, copied my 122gb /home dir, on a 1.9T raid10 to a different drive and reinstalled, then copied it back, but kmail refuses to use the copied back data so I'm using FF to post this.
> 
> Check permissions on spools etc - how did you copy your data out?
> A tar ball preserving permissions is also quite useful for this.
> Goodness, what do you keep to make your /home directory 122G?

I'm not sure what's eyebrow-raising about 122GB under /home.

$ dfree
Filesystem      IUse%  Type  1MB-blocks    Used  Avail  Use%  Mounted  on
/dev/sda4         19%  ext4       30830   26224¹   3016   90%  /
/dev/sda2           -  vfat         520       7    514    2%  /boot/efi
/dev/dm-1          2%  ext4      428208  382990  23396   95%  /home
$ 

A large /home seems sufficient reason to mount it from a separate
partition. Then all you have to worry about when you reinstall is
which of your dotfiles do you let the fresh system get to see, and
which do you hide (in case they're causing problems).

¹ /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/<2½ versions> occupies ~13GB.

Cheers,
David.

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about 10th new install of bullseye Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-02-18 18:20 +0100
  Re: about 10th new install of bullseye "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-18 20:50 +0100
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-02-18 21:20 +0100
      Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-19 16:40 +0100
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-19 03:10 +0100
      Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-19 03:20 +0100
        Re: about 10th new install of bullseye The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-02-19 03:20 +0100
          Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-19 04:00 +0100
        Re: about 10th new install of bullseye rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-02-19 05:40 +0100
  Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-18 21:30 +0100
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-02-19 01:30 +0100
      Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-19 01:50 +0100
      Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-02-19 01:50 +0100
        Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-19 03:20 +0100
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-02-20 03:50 +0100
  Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-02-19 06:50 +0100
    Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-02-19 07:20 +0100
      Re: about 10th new install of bullseye David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-02-20 01:10 +0100
        Re: about 10th new install of bullseye gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-02-20 03:50 +0100
          Re: about 10th new install of bullseye Charles Kroeger <mbone@gmx.co.uk> - 2022-02-23 06:30 +0100

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