Hi, On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 शà¥à¤°à¥à¤§à¤° नारायण दà¥à¤ णà¤à¤° wrote : >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 installing a newer version of the same distro, is it ok to keep these files 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..
Although this seems like a viable solution, using home is one of those habits that die hard:-) Like the OP, even I have a habit of installing a LOT of OSes at the same time. Over the years of screwing up my /home. re-installing on a Primary partitions and in most cases, completely screwing up the partition table, I have come to the conclusion that if you want more OSes, just use more SEPARATE LOGICAL PARTITIONS. Its the best way and one which causes least headache. Otherwise, I spend up more time on the partition table issues than actually test-driving my new OS. So, just have a huge Extended partition and keep installing the OSes in this partition. Please post here, if you come up with a better solution. :-) Raseel. The OpenSourceDeal : http://osd.byethost8.com/ http://raseel.livejournal.com -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
