On Sunday 03 September 2006 12:32, Kunal Thakar wrote: > Only lately did I realize that maintaining a separate partition for /home > could solve my woes to a large extent. The question is that will it be > necessary to remove all the hidden folders from /home like .gnome2, .gconf > and all the rc files when I want to install a new distro? If I am > installing a newer version of the same distro, is it ok to keep these files > so as to preserve my settings? > Are there any other disadvantages of keeping a separate /home partition?
Problem is that there is no guarantee that old settings will work, can be migrated to newer/other version etc. This is the single most disadvantage of /home on a separae partition. I suggest you another approach. Keep all your data, in another partition and blow away /home every time you reinstall. /home is not the only place a non-root user can have access to.. Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
