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class=338055519-05012007>Maybe I should clarify. I use a separate /home
partition. I just typed too fast. It should have read: "This is
exactly why I keep a separate partition for /home
directory."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Oren Beck <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday,
January 05, 2007 1:03 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City,
MO<BR><B>Cc:</B> <A>KCLUG</A>@kclug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Upgrading from
FC4 to Kubuntu???<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 1/4/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Kelsay,
Brian - Kansas City, MO</B> <> wrote:</SPAN>
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is exactly why I keep a separate /home directory. You can
always<BR>slap it in another system and copy it over or wipe the other
partitions<BR>and reinstall and all your crap is still
there. Some of your dot files <BR>may need to be deleted, but
should still work with newer program<BR>versions. You shouldn't
need /var unless you put stuff like your<BR>website in there or files for
FTP or mail files. Since I use web mail<BR>and have FTP directory
on another drive that is not a problem. I only <BR>save /home
before a new system load. And I do back that up prior
to<BR>reload, usually. I've only had to save it from the dead
once by<BR>breathing life back into the partition table, but then I like a
good<BR>resurrection every now and then. <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>This is getting plugged in here at a later date due to sober
deliberation.<BR>I am going to raise a proposal here that will also be used to
begin a different thread- but is quite on topic here. If one is doing a
migration from one distro to another that seems a good point in time to
add a "userdata" drive. My admittedly painful lack of detailed "how to" not
being of issue here, What's involved in copying /home, /var and anything
else liable to have unique "userdata" in it to a new drive, and setting
partitions to have the physical location/s be keeping OS on one drive and
"your data" on another drive? <BR><BR>Would not having "your data" safe on a
totally separate device lower the worry factor of migrations? And it would
seem that Gentoo power users doing frequent emerge updates would have lower
risk of losing "their data" <BR><BR>Or am I far wrong?<BR><SPAN
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