[Tfug] Thinking linux

[lukkystarr at excite.com]

I like to keep a large, completely separate partition for the home directories, and add it to my fstab file after installation.









 --- On Sun 02/04, Jim March < 1.jim.march at gmail.com > wrote:

From: Jim March [mailto: 1.jim.march at gmail.com]

To: tfug at tfug.org

Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:53:42 -0700

Subject: Re: [Tfug] Thinking linux



>> If I find I'm unhappy with my choice, it's not like I'm dual booting. Ican just wipe the drive clean andstart over :) <<It's even better than that.If you copy out your entire home directory on the distro you're jumping awayfrom and create the same username on the new, then copy the data in, you'dbe amazed at how many settings you get to keep :).Esp. if you stay within either the gnome or kde families.In other words, I've stuck with gnome from dapper to edgy to OpenSuse10.2and now to Fedora Core 6.  And in all those jumps, one hell of alot ofsettings stayed with me.Of course, when you copy the home dir, make sure you get all the hidden dirs(the ones that start with a period).  And in the jump to Fedora I had tolearn how to recursively reset permissions with chmod while root to givemyself ownership of the stuff while working at user level.  The othersdidn't seem to care :).Distro-hopping is NOT hard.Jim_______________________________________________Tucson Free Unix Group - 
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