new motherboard - reinstall ubuntu?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Aug 22 13:57:21 UTC 2005


thephotoman wrote:

> For future reference, you can keep everything in /home if you've got
> that as a separate partition--I always do that on my systems.  It'd
> handle most of those modified config files,

Well, only personal configs - not what's in /etc (and which can't be on a
separate filesystem from /)

> but not the binaries (unless 
> you installed them with fakeroot--which might be a good idea, especially

Why would you be installing binaries with anything but apt (which _always_
requires installing as root).


-- 
derek





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