question about /home on separate drive

[Wade Smart]

I want to ask a totally different question.

Im installing the new 9.04 OS and when Im creating the partitions,
what if I choose from the very beginning the second hard drive with
my old /home partition on it. Would the new setup install the necessary
files for the new setup thus over ridding the similar ones from my 8.04 setup or
would it just not do that?

Wade

Registered Linux User: #480675
Linux since June 2005



On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 22:18, Wade Smart<wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, ok... I see. I might still do that then. Could always use a spare space.
>
> Wade
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> Registered Linux User: #480675
> Linux since June 2005
>
>
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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.
>>> > --
>>> > 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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>>
>> 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.
>> --
>> 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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