On 14 June 2010 00:03, Stan Goodman <stan.good...@hashkedim.com> wrote: > I too keep /home on a separate partition, and have thought about keeping > the same /home partition intact across upgrades, but I have never dared to > do so. So my situation is different enough from yours that I still need to > ask the following question more explicitly: >
I also keep a separate /home. Each distro get the user name as per the distro name and installed partition, and when I've checked that everything works then I simply move my personal files from one /home/user to another. For instance, my current username is karmic1 because I am using Ubuntu 9.10 in sda1. When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 to sda2 I called the user lucid2. That was a bad distro, so I'm still using the old karmic1 user and booting into Ubuntu 9.10. > Dotan suggests carrying over only ~/.kde[4]/share/apps/<appName>. Since > e.g. kmail is represented in both .kde and .kde4, presumably I should > carry over both appName directories. But apps also have subdirectories > ~/.kde[4]/share/config/<appName>, so there are altogether four appName > subdirectories needed for each kde app. I'd bother copying at all only > for kmail and kaddressbook, because that is where imprtant data are. > You must check if your kmail install is using the file from .kde or .kde4. It is only using one. > But when v11.2 and kde4 install kmail and kaddressbook, will they actually > make use of these directories that came from kde3? > In the specific case of Kmail, yes. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
