Re: [PLUG] Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7

2019-04-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: FWIW I recommend learning how to build a .deb package. These days people are hyped for containers and virtualization, but package maintenance is still a useful tool in every user's shed. To paraphrase Mr. Heinlein's answer: "Mr. Heinlein" -- heh. -- Pa

[PLUG] Hot swapping physical /home partitions - Possible? Practical alternative?

2019-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Yes, my question is as strange as the subject line ;o> The hard drive on my old desktop is dying. I've copied the /home partition to a flash drive. I've a laptop with 3 separate configurations of Debian installed. Each is optimized for different goals. The fstab file of each references the same p

Re: [PLUG] Hot swapping physical /home partitions - Possible? Practical alternative?

2019-04-27 Thread Louis Kowolowski
You won’t be able to swap between them any time the user is logged in (files are open). You could certainly run a script at boottime that would determine which system was booting and then make a symlink to the correct /home You could merge the /home into a single one and symlink all the systems

Re: [PLUG] Hot swapping physical /home partitions - Possible? Practical alternative?

2019-04-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Sat, 2019-04-27 at 13:08 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Yes, my question is as strange as the subject line ;o> > > The hard drive on my old desktop is dying. > I've copied the /home partition to a flash drive. > I've a laptop with 3 separate configurations of Debian installed. > Each is optimiz

Re: [PLUG] Hot swapping physical /home partitions - Possible? Practical alternative?

2019-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2019 01:30 PM, Louis Kowolowski wrote: You won’t be able to swap between them any time the user is logged in (files are open). I suspected that. I'm overtired after trying to keep the hours I did a half-century ago ;/ You could certainly run a script at boottime that would determin

Re: [PLUG] Hot swapping physical /home partitions - Possible? Practical alternative?

2019-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2019 01:49 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: On Sat, 2019-04-27 at 13:08 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Yes, my question is as strange as the subject line ;o> The hard drive on my old desktop is dying. I've copied the /home partition to a flash drive. I've a laptop with 3 separate