question about /home on separate drive

[Wade Smart]

There is only 25 items in the new /home totaling 59.2mb.

So the problem is that the new /home has files in it that I need for
the new setup.

Can I copy the items of the new /home to my old /home and then mark
out the new /home
in fstab ... and the things like my scripts in nautilus-scripts, Ill
just copy them from old to new.

That would work --- right?

Wade

Registered Linux User: #480675
Linux since June 2005



On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 07:33, Fred Roller<froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 08:03 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
>> That will overwrite his old files when he probably still wants them.
>> Otherwise why bother with a separate /home?
>>
>> I'm not aware of any typical Gnome app that gets confused when
>> presented with a slightly older version of their config files.
>> Assuming we are talking a reasonably recent version of Ubuntu, I doubt
>> there will be any issue.  Otherwise upgrading in place wouldn't work.
>>
>> A different possibility would be to proceed as he intended, using his
>> old home as the new home.  Then, just create a new user 'test' or
>> whatever.  Log in, and if there is some setting there he likes he can
>> copy it over to his own home folder.
>>
>> Brian
>
> You have a valid point if he has the same user in both /homes.  He would
> then need to rename the user directory and create the corresponding
> user.  He could also leave the folder in the /Data and move items as
> needed.
>
> Point is all the data is available and the 10Gb partition is already
> mounting for optional use.  If he just remarks out the mount entry (his
> original plan) in fstab for his current /home in favor of his
> previous /home (250Gb) then he would have to mount the partition anyways
> to get the information.
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