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[Mark]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
:
> You know, a separate /home partition will help you through upgrades
> without losing configuration.
>
Oh, YEAH!

It will get you through LOTS of changes bigger than simple upgrades or
reinstallations.  I switched from CentOS 5.5 to Ubuntu 10.10 and only
needed to tweak a few things in my home directories (largely due to
the staggering level of change there - kernel 2.6.18 -> 2.6.35, GNOME
2.16 -> 2.32, etc.).  I even managed to retain my painfully customized
windowing theme even though the base BlueCurve-Grape theme is not
present on U10.10.

I keep *all* my non-system entities on separate file systems from
/boot and /.  Even if I clobber my / file system I can still refresh
or even reinstall it with minimal pain.

Mark