-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:45:17 +0100 From: Barry Titterton <titterton.ba...@gmail.com> To: Phill Whiteside <phi...@vpolink.com> On 08/04/13 20:21, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi loannis, back in the crazy days it was advised to have a seperate /home. Whether this is still valid these days? Pass... would I ever forgo my seperate /home partition? Never :) You can do some crazy things, and bad things can happen to good machines. I have always preferred my "home (i.e personal data) for my desktop system on its' own partition. Whilst an upgrade of your system is designed to leave /home alone. If you have to re-install because it is so badly broken, the installer will not preserve your /home unless it is in a seperate partition. It is for each to decide. Regards, Phill.
I am a great believer in the separate Home partition as it saved my marriage! I shall explain:- My wife is currently studying at Durham university, and uses our main laptop for her course work. A few weeks ago I was struggling to get Wine working properly; I had not used the software since I had upgraded the laptop from 10.04 to 12.04 and it would not work properly. I therefore decided to 'purge' Wine and reinstall. I googled for the correct CLI command but I either found an incorrect command or typed it in incorrectly as it removed a lot more than just the Wine application. I now had a completely broken laptop with my wife's work stuck on it. I had no alternative to do a full reinstall of Ubuntu. A hour later I had a fully working laptop again with all data intact. My wife was content to only give me the 'Don't Do It Again' lecture. PS. I have now learned my lesson. UbuntuOne is configured to synchronise her work with our spare laptop, and I have dusted off my old backup drive as well. Regards, Barry T
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