question about /home on separate drive

[Wade Smart]

Oh, ok... I see. I might still do that then. Could always use a spare space.

Wade

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On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 21:34, Fred Roller<froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:04 -0500, Wade Smart 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.
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>> > something wrong."
>> >
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>
> Yes it would work.  All you need to do is add an # at the front of the
> original (10Gb) entry to REM it out.
>
> sample:
> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
> UUID=4fab62b4-8c52-4e53-b9d2-24415fd54fe5 /               ext4
> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /Crypt was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
> # UUID=1b53f0fe-b3d9-4334-aac4-84f2d081be6c /Crypt          ext3
> ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
> relatime        0       2
> # /Isolibrary was on /dev/sda4 during installation
> UUID=f14efdc7-00b6-4e18-9cfd-23c35dde5524 /Isolibrary     ext3
> relatime        0       2
> # /tmp was on /dev/sda2 during installation
> UUID=df9bfb68-445f-43ce-a66b-d9e0858777e6 /tmp            ext3
> relatime        0       2
> # swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
> UUID=6d8fe2e0-a937-4652-9a78-ebee6cb3a3bf none
>
>
> Here "/Crypt" would no longer be mounted, without risking the config.
>
> end the sample.
>
> What I was proposing was to mount the partition of 10 Gb to /Data so
> that you would achieve what you want AND have the 10 Gb for other uses
> if you wanted.
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