Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:

> Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my
> /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those
> (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al) each remaining as their own separate
> directories on a secondary partition. Fstab would then be asked to
> step-by-step put each of them to work as a singular entry connected up
> at each reboot...

Cindy, I advocate using /opt for that very reason. I leave /home/user 
alone. I create /opt/user directory and fill it with the usual 
/home/user directories, such as Documents, Downloads, Music, Videos and 
the like. Those directories contain ther actual files and are safe if 
root partition gets clobbered or the OS becomes too wonky from 
installing all the things. CLEAN re-install also cleans screwed up 
config files in the home dot-files/directories, that you really do not 
want to keep. . I've done this since the Caldera (pre-RedHAT IPO) era. 
"Nary a burp in the barrel." as they used to say in Popular Electronics.

"Carl and Jerry" Enjoy!! Ric
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