[GRLUG] clean install and date modified

[Patrick Goupell]

On 09/24/2012 09:11 AM, megadave wrote:
> FYI, this might be one good reason for keeping /home on a separate
> partition (or even a separate drive, if you have one) than the rest of
> the system. All you'd need to do would be to install again, and just
> tell the installer NOT to format /home (or dont even mount it during
> the new install, just install with no separate /home, leaving the 2nd
> drive alone, and then fixup the mounts after the new system was
> running.)
>
>    

As a general practice I do not place the home directory on a separate 
partition, but I do keep all of my personal files on a separate partition.

I do that because at one time I was trying out different linux installs 
and kept home on a separate patition.

Sometimes the "hidden profile/config" files for applications changed and 
I got "flakey" results booting between different linux distributions/ 
releases.

So now I keep my personal files on a separate partition and add a 
symlink to it in my home directory.

Application "profile/config" files I want to keep (like 
firefox/iceweasel, thunderbird/icedove, etc) I also keep on the separate 
partition and update the appropriate "profiles/config" files or create a 
symlink to it after the install of the os.

This method also cleans out all of the no longer used "profile/config" 
files from different apps I tried but decided to not use.


Patrick