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Re: Upgrade Problem

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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.

That gives me a chance to rant (gently, I hope) on one of my pet peeves and 
how I solve it.

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.

(I won't go into detail on that -- if you find it convenient, more power to 
you.)

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>.  

(I do preserve the content of /home/<user> from the old machine / installation 
for some period of time in case I find that I need some configuration or such 
from there.)

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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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