On 7 July 2015 at 11:07, Scott Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 July 2015 at 22:19, Chris F.A. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you keep /home on a separate partition, you wouldn't have this >> problem. > > Something I've wondered about doing this: > /home doesn't only contain data files created by the user. There are > also many hidden files created by the system and programs, usually in > the root of the user's home directory. For example: .config and > .gconf. > > If one were to install a new distribution, or even just a newer > release of the same distribution, and then simply re-mount the /home > partition afterwards, might not there possibly be some problems with > these hidden files containing incorrect information? Do most programs > that create these files sort things out for themselves?
In theory it should be the program's problem: you're a loyal user who's been using their product for a while, the program should recognize and convert/update from previous formats. In practice it's hit-and-miss: one of my favourite window managers, wmii, breaks its old ~/.wmii/... file formats every couple years and I have to wipe them, learn the new format, and re-configure. It sucks. It depends on the program. I remember having to do it once long ago (like a decade) with KDE, but mostly the big names play nice these days. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
