On Wednesday, February 08, 2017 06:37:55 PM Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Careful there, I would not copy any of the /home/username/dot-files or > > dot directories over, except like .mozilla and .thunderbird, so you > > don't carry over some old and crufty setting that might have been > > problematic. To spare you nightmares like this one, I use the /opt > > directory on a separate partition for all of my personal data. > > So, I use /opt/ric/Documents and in my brand-new /home/ric directory I > > delete the newly created Documents directory and then link (ln -s > > /opt/ric/Documents Documents) and do the same with the other familiar > > home directories like Videos, Music, Downloads, everything except > > Desktop. If something goes ape, systemk-wise, you can do a fresh > > install of / (root) directory and leave /opt alone. I've done this > > since the old Caldera days. Nary a burp in the barrel! Ric
Why not make your own top level directory, i.e. /ric (with Documents and such)--that's what I do. > I don't usually go quite that far, but photos, videos, and virtual disks > are all in /usr/local/ which I will also need to copy over. Same comment as above--why not make your own top level directory for that stuff. (Reading the File Hierarchy Standard (FHS), I don't think that is quite the intent of /usr/local--and could make some things inconvenient at one time or another...) > You say to > avoid copying except .mozilla and .thunderbird. I have 117 such > dot-files and dot-directories. Are you saying only to leave .mozilla > and .thunderbird and have everything else rebuild when it is next used. > Admittedly, that will get rid of some cruft, but how should I determine > if there are others that I should keep? > > > I tried to format the new drive using st (Seagate Tools). It said that > it would remove all data, which is expected, but nothing was removed! > It also took less than a minute. Should I be using /dev/sda in the > command line instead of /dev/sg0 (which is how st -l lists the drive? > > > Marc > > > > Marc