No wired or wireless network

Paul Cartwright pbcartwright at gmail.com
Sun Oct 20 10:53:06 UTC 2013


 
> Why do people recommend using a separate /home partition? I have only
> used one on the last couple of installs and what I found was that the
> .config files remained which may conflict with the new release
> installation. This time for 13.10 I was thinking of a separate
> partition and saving all work files to it rather than the /home
> partition. This is then easier for backups.
>
> james
>

What Liam said +
it saves all your emails, all your contacts, all your favorites, so when
you re-install, you don't lose anything and you don't have to restore
anything. All your music/docs/photos are still there.. You just have to
create the same user when you re-install.

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587





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