On Friday, January 04, 2019 08:21:30 PM David Wright wrote: > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 14:02:27 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > Having babbled for the last two paragraphs, I'll close buy saying that > > I will revert to the entire installation on the same partition. > > I would advise you to keep your separate /home partition. Except for > dot files/directories, they're independent of the OS. It makes > reinstallation and upgrades a lot easier. That gives me a chance to rant (gently, I hope) on one of my pet peeves and how I solve it. I hink it is really inconvenient to have config information (basically the . files) and what I call "real user data" (that is, documents, photos, videos, ...) combined in the same directory with the config information hidden. (I won't go into detail on that -- if you find it convenient, more power to you.) My solution: I create a separate top level directory (e.g. /<user> instead of /home/<user>) and store all my "real user data" in /<user>, and let the OS and application programs do what they want in /home/<user>. When I upgrade or move to a new machine, I move (well, copy) the content of /<user> but let the new OS create and fool with a new /home/<user>. (I do preserve the content of /home/<user> from the old machine / installation for some period of time in case I find that I need some configuration or such from there.)
