On Friday, January 04, 2019 08:21:30 PM David Wright wrote:
On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 14:02:27 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
Having babbled for the last two paragraphs, I'll close buy saying that
I will revert to the entire installation on the same partition.
I would advise you to keep your separate /home partition. Except for
dot files/directories, they're independent of the OS. It makes
reinstallation and upgrades a lot easier.
I hink it is really inconvenient to have config information (basically the .
files) and what I call "real user data" (that is, documents, photos, videos,
...) combined in the same directory with the config information hidden.
My solution: I create a separate top level directory (e.g. /<user> instead of
/home/<user>) and store all my "real user data" in /<user>, and let the OS and
application programs do what they want in /home/<user>. When I upgrade or
move to a new machine, I move (well, copy) the content of /<user> but let the
new OS create and fool with a new /home/<user>.