On 05/02/2018 02:24 PM, Temlakos wrote:
One of you (I don't know who it was) shared with me an excellent method
of making possible a clean reinstallation of Fedora--going above and
beyond the "manual upgrade" described in the Installation Guide, that
amounts to erasing the /root directory but leaving alone all other
directories, not only /home but /usr, /etc, /bin, /tmp, /var, and any
others I might have left out. This method preserves user data on a
physically separate filesystem (an HDD or SSD). But it does not mount
this separate filesystem as /home. The /home directory remains a part of
the main filesystem and gets erased and reinaugurated, just like /usr,
/etc, /var, and all the rest of them.
I really don't understand what the benefit of this is. Your /home
directory should be on a separate partition from / and won't be erased
even with a full reinstall of the OS.
$ sudo mkdir /crypt
$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb2 /crypt
(Here I start with "$ sudo" instead of "#" because to get a "#" prompt I
have to execute "su," and that can be dangerous.)
How is "su" dangerous? Either way you're running a command as root. I
generally use "sudo -i" to get to a root prompt.
The syntax for establishing a symlink is even simpler:
ln -s /crypt/UserName/Dir
where UserName is the name of a specific created user, and Dir is
Documents, Pictures, Music, Public, Templates, Videos, and anything else
I want to preserve from one iteration of Fedora to the next. Of course I
have to remove the "hard" directories that Fedora normally sets up
before I execute these link commands.
Are you trying to remove all the user configuration files as well? If
so, then just turn on "show hidden files" in Nautilus and delete the dot
directories. But of course, only do that if you really want to have to
reconfigure everything again.
The use of "/crypt" suggests that the original use may have been to only
encrypt some parts of the user folders, but that still seems way too
complicated to be useful.
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