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

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday, October 25, 2013 11:24:35 PM you wrote:
> Dear Everybody,
> 
> thanks for all the input so far - clear enough to work with it!
> 
> For now, one question remains. Do I need to create ONE or TWO /home
> partitions? Background of this question: in the thread 'Still 100% CPU when
> 

I would create two.   One for normal use and one as a backup...  Then use the 
backup to back up your home before switching to a new system.



> using Kontact and Akonadi ', there was a suggestion like this one:
> > Today I started from scratch an rebuilt my entire $HOME disk, with
> > a lot of referencing to my old one to determine settings for KMAIL
> > and desktop frills.  Now things are working like a charm.
> 

I wrote that and did that.....   I cleaned out about 15 yrs of junk (most of 
it not system related) and recreated my home from scratch.  Wasn't really a 
hard job to do and I would say to do it maybe every other install or maybe 
three installs.

I also have about three 'systems' or space for them on my system and I rotate 
those.  While I'm now running Saucy, I still have Ringtail and Quantal 
available if needed.


> Another similar suggestion seems to work out this in more detail:
> > You mean that it is not possible in Kubuntu to create symlinks - for
> 
> kmail,
> 
> > whatever - to where you have your directories/data stored?
> > 

With all due respect to Basil, I've been running linux for 20 years and I 
don't think I would try to make all those symlinks into a data partition...  
Besides being pretty complex, I don't think it really solves any of the 
problems.  When I rebuilt my system, I found that the storage of email files, 
which has changed several times over the years, had changed yet again in a 
major way that symlinks wouldn't really solve unless you went in a did a lot 
of research and changed everything else around yourself.   I'd rather start 
fresh and make darn sure that the system was rebuilding itself.

Just too much hassle in my view to make the symlinks.  I'd rather make copious 
back-ups and then sort out any problems.  Been doing that for 20 years without 
major problems and by rebuilding /home every few installs, it should go even 
smoother.




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