On 1/4/07, Kelsay,
Brian - Kansas City, MO <> wrote:
This
is exactly why I keep a separate /home directory. You can
always
slap it in another system and copy it over or wipe the other
partitions
and reinstall and all your crap is still
there. Some of your dot files
may need to be deleted, but
should still work with newer program
versions. You shouldn't
need /var unless you put stuff like your
website in there or files for
FTP or mail files. Since I use web mail
and have FTP directory
on another drive that is not a problem. I only
save /home
before a new system load. And I do back that up prior
to
reload, usually. I've only had to save it from the dead
once by
breathing life back into the partition table, but then I like a
good
resurrection every now and then.
This is getting plugged in here at a later date due to sober
deliberation.
I am going to raise a proposal here that will also be used to
begin a different thread- but is quite on topic here. If one is doing a
migration from one distro to another that seems a good point in time to
add a "userdata" drive. My admittedly painful lack of detailed "how to" not
being of issue here, What's involved in copying /home, /var and anything
else liable to have unique "userdata" in it to a new drive, and setting
partitions to have the physical location/s be keeping OS on one drive and
"your data" on another drive?
Would not having "your data" safe on a
totally separate device lower the worry factor of migrations? And it would
seem that Gentoo power users doing frequent emerge updates would have lower
risk of losing "their data"
Or am I far wrong?