Adivce on Partitions

[Scott]

On 06/01/2006 08:26 PM, * Erik Christiansen spake thusly:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 07:35:33PM -0700, Scott wrote:
>> So the only solution I've been able to come up with is to move the above
>> mentioned subdirectories to /.
> 
> If ~ is /home/me, then one alternative is to employ /home/me_a and
> /home/me_b, where only one contains files to be backed up. It is not
> necessary to useradd me_b. The files are just moved, and still owned by
> your original accouunt. You just have a home, and a garage. ;-)

That has potential.  What do you do yourself as far as backups (assuming
you do backup).  I've only recently become really interested in it
because I've found myself (for a variety of reasons) having to reinstall
or move stuff (I've got OS' running right now) and I've twice
accidentally wiped my home directory clean when I didn't intend to.

> 
> It is neater to reserve / for system stuff, wouldn't you agree?

Perhaps, but not necessarily. What I'd had in mind is something like
"/stuff/audio", "/stuff/video" and so on.

What I had been doing is putting the video, and audio directories (and
so forth) on an external hard drive and symlinks to those directories in
~ but I often ran into problems when moving/saving files. Especially if
the external drive hadn't been mounted beforehand.

> 
> Erik
> 
>> But again, I've goatherd that could somehow present problems?
> 
> Did the goatherd indicate specific problems?  :^)

Snartass, :0)


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