Upgrade Question

[J. Limon]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:25:14PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> "J. Limon" <jlimon at eml.cc>  said:
> > I find keeping /home on its own partition causes more harm that
> > solutions
> 
> May I ask what harm?  My /home has been on the same partition since
> Warty Warthog and given no trouble.
> 
> Cybe R. Wizard
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Going between distros is the most painful process of having /home on a seperate partition. Distros with different prefixes for distros that you spend so much time cp'ing pref files and whatnot.. just not worth it to me.

I have a media partition I back up my specific pref files I want to keep to, then that drive gets backed up every so often. I'm just as happy with that solution as I would be a /home partition.

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