On 04/21/2022 08:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:21 AM Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
>> I am not upgrading in place.
>>
>> I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a
>> different partition.
>>
>> I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on
>> its current partition.
>>
>> I'm aware of cautions about upgrading in-place cf
>> [
>> https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
>> ]
>>
>> Are there things to be aware of when using the same /home partition on
>> both?
>>
>
> My approach to this is to create (and use) a separate Partition, which I
> call /bighome. When I create users (I use several, based on Function), I
> separately create a Directory on /bighome, and change its ownership to the
> User.
>
> Each Partition has its own /home, but mainly for the .dot files. Anything
> that is likely to be long term is on /bighome.
>
> This /bighome has survived from Squeeze to Bookworm, as well as a number of
> Ubuntu releases.
>
Sounds interesting. Do you have multiple versions of Debian installed at
the same time or have you upgraded a single copy of Debian several times?
All of the above. For example, on my tower, I have 9 Debians, two Ubuntu occurences, and Mint 20. This includes two Bullseye occurrences, one on xfce and one on KDE. But there is only one /bighome, used by all of these.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kenneth Parker