Fresh install Kubuntu 13.10: how best to partition the HD for optimal, smooth Kontakt & Akonadi *ADDENDUM*

[Basil Chupin]

On 27/10/13 16:40, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 27/10/13 00:22, Bas Roufs wrote:
>>
>> Hey Basil & Everybody,
>> thanks, Basil,  for your REALLY USEFUL! feedback.
>> I know Midnight Commander - that package has been my all time high 
>> favourite :-)  ever  since Ulrich Grün introduced me to Kubuntu Linux 
>> - already six years ago.
>> For now, one question remains.  Which of the steps you mentioned,  
>> are meant to be done DURING the installation and which of them 
>> afterwords?
>> Respectfully yours,
>> Bas.
>>
>
>
> I am glad that you wrote this because I remembered something a short 
> time ago and was going to add it to what I wrote a day or so ago.
>
> What I forgot to add is to create another, small, only 1GB big, 
> partition at the beginning and format it in ext4. You probably won't 
> need it right now but at least you will have it available for use 
> should you require it.
>
> To understand what I am going to state, and what I already stated 
> previously, read this article:
>
> http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/down/articles/LSK_multi_distro_install_US.pdf 
>
>
> It may take a couple of readings to really grasp it as it seems (to me 
> at least) that after the author wrote it someone edited it and did 
> some shortcuts. However, it is still understandable if you read it 
> carefully :-) .
>
> Now, to your question above.
[....]

I remembered this part only a few minutes ago which is why I am adding 
this some 3 weeks "after the event" :-) .

If you go the way of using a special partition on a different partition 
or on a different (2nd) HDD and symlink folders/files from your /home to 
this special partition then you must remember this when you go to do a 
backup of your /home:

your /home will contain the symlinks of the folders/files to the special 
partition so that when you do a backup only the symlinks will be backed 
up and NOT the contents of the actual folders. For example, in your 
/home you have symlinked the Downloads folder to the the special 
partition (say /Data/Special/Downloads ).  Doing a backup of /home will 
only backup the symlink and NOT the contents of /Data/Special/Downloads.

To get a full backup of /home you will need to backup /home *AND* 
/Data/Special.

BC

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