--- In [email protected], "Pascal" <pascal.bernhard@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "highskywhy@" <highskywhy@> wrote: > > [snip] <snip> > > >> I don't use /home because some settings for one distro will not work > > >> with another distro. In this way, I keep my home partition just for > > >> settings then save all of my information on my /data partition. > > Do you create symlinks to the data partition so you do not have the specify > the unusual place where your files get saved? > > Pascal > Yes. A simple, portable bourne shell script will do the trick on each new OS I install. It removes the current directories and replaces them with symbolic links to the directories on my /data partition. No files lost, no problem.
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