question about /home on separate drive

[Wade Smart]

Ah, I didnt see what Brian wrote --- which I think is what I just asked.

Great, well, Im going to try this and Ill post my results.

Thanks.

Wade

Registered Linux User: #480675
Linux since June 2005



On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 21:04, Wade Smart<wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> --
>> Fred R.
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>>
>> "Life is like Linux - simple; if you are fighting it, you are doing
>> something wrong."
>>
>>
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