Re: about 10th new install of bullseye
On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 19:41:01 (+0000), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 09:15:50AM -0800, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Two problems:
> >
> > terminals went funkity late tuesday, spent Wed-Thu trying to reboot, would not go beyond the 15 second mark rebooting. Finally ran the net installer in rescue mode, copied my 122gb /home dir, on a 1.9T raid10 to a different drive and reinstalled, then copied it back, but kmail refuses to use the copied back data so I'm using FF to post this.
>
> Check permissions on spools etc - how did you copy your data out?
> A tar ball preserving permissions is also quite useful for this.
> Goodness, what do you keep to make your /home directory 122G?
I'm not sure what's eyebrow-raising about 122GB under /home.
$ dfree
Filesystem IUse% Type 1MB-blocks Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 19% ext4 30830 26224¹ 3016 90% /
/dev/sda2 - vfat 520 7 514 2% /boot/efi
/dev/dm-1 2% ext4 428208 382990 23396 95% /home
$
A large /home seems sufficient reason to mount it from a separate
partition. Then all you have to worry about when you reinstall is
which of your dotfiles do you let the fresh system get to see, and
which do you hide (in case they're causing problems).
¹ /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/<2½ versions> occupies ~13GB.
Cheers,
David.
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