I used to have just /home during my time before learning about LVM I also had a /home-backup partition and use(d) rsync to copy all areas over, including permissions, 'blank' disk areas etc.
Regards, Phill. On 30 December 2012 03:07, Ioannis Vranos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Aere Greenway > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Phil: > > > > Yes, we do tend to have very different hardware setups among ourselves. > I > > am particularly notorious for that sort of thing. > > > > Your comment about having a separate partition for "/home" brings to > mind a > > question whose answer I have long pondered, and could possibly allow me > to > > try that again (it's been years). > > > > Say, you have a machine with a Lubuntu (LXDE), Ubuntu (GDE/Unity), > > Ubuntu-Studio (XFCE), and Kubuntu (KDE) system on it (in separate > > partitions). And say, on that machine, you have a single, separate > > partition whose mount-point is "/home" in each of the system partitions. > > > > Are the (hidden) configuration files used by the differing system > components > > in the various desktop environments, separate enough, that you could > > actually run the various 'flavors' of Ubuntu using the same "/home" > > partition? > > I have not tested it myself, but if you have the same settings on > common components, they will work OK in theory. > > Also you can install the various graphical desktops in the same > installation of buntu, by installing the corresponding "desktop" > packages (ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, > kubuntu-desktop). > > > > That could be very useful for me, if it could work. > > If you want to test the various Linux distributions, VirtualBox is > better. "Distributions" include all buntu flavours. This is the best > option. > > -- > Ioannis Vranos > > http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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