Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

On Wed, 2 May 2018 16:02:01 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/02/2018 03:57 PM, stan wrote: > > Then the links in home just point to the various directories > > under /mnt/[disk-identifier]/crypt as you have above. From then > > on, it is maintenance free. And it allows me to

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2018, Temlakos sent: > One of you (I don't know who it was) shared with me an excellent > method of making possible a clean reinstallation of Fedora--going > above and beyond the "manual upgrade" described in the Installation > Guide, that amounts to erasing the /root

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > You'd run into the exact same thing if you updated, say Mozilla, from > one version to one that's incompatible with the old one. You'd need > to blow all the users' ".mozilla" directories away in that case. Why > go through all this? If a

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

On 05/02/2018 06:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 05/02/2018 02:49 PM, Temlakos wrote: On 05/02/2018 05:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Are you trying to remove all the user configuration files as well?  If so, then just turn on "show hidden files" in Nautilus and delete the dot directories.  But of

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

On 05/02/2018 03:57 PM, stan wrote: Then the links in home just point to the various directories under /mnt/[disk-identifier]/crypt as you have above. From then on, it is maintenance free. And it allows me to boot a second version of Fedora (the previous one) with access to all the same data

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

On 05/02/2018 02:49 PM, Temlakos wrote: On 05/02/2018 05:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Are you trying to remove all the user configuration files as well?  If so, then just turn on "show hidden files" in Nautilus and delete the dot directories.  But of course, only do that if you really want to

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

On Wed, 2 May 2018 17:24:41 -0400 Temlakos wrote: > The syntax I have worked out for the commands to mount the auxiliary > filesystem as /crypt is: > > $ sudo mkdir /crypt > > $ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb2 /crypt > > (Here I start with "$ sudo" instead of "#" because to

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

On 05/02/2018 02:24 PM, Temlakos wrote: > Everyone: > > One of you (I don't know who it was) shared with me an excellent method > of making possible a clean reinstallation of Fedora--going above and > beyond the "manual upgrade" described in the Installation Guide, that > amounts to erasing the

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

On 05/02/2018 05:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 05/02/2018 02:24 PM, Temlakos wrote: One of you (I don't know who it was) shared with me an excellent method of making possible a clean reinstallation of Fedora--going above and beyond the "manual upgrade" described in the Installation Guide, that

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

On 05/02/2018 02:24 PM, Temlakos wrote: One of you (I don't know who it was) shared with me an excellent method of making possible a clean reinstallation of Fedora--going above and beyond the "manual upgrade" described in the Installation Guide, that amounts to erasing the /root directory but

The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

Everyone: One of you (I don't know who it was) shared with me an excellent method of making possible a clean reinstallation of Fedora--going above and beyond the "manual upgrade" described in the Installation Guide, that amounts to erasing the /root directory but leaving alone all other