On 12/16/2017 12:59 PM, stan wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:13:55 -0500 fred roller fredroller66@gmail.com wrote:
I have done this type of set up on my systems before so what its worth I will share how I installed and where applicable, why.
Good read. I'll keep it around for future reference.
| 5. In general, should I place a partition for anything other than /home on the 1 TB SSD? This will explain how/why I put /home on the 120 [smaller drive]. Through the use of hard/soft links to folders in /Crypt I connected the data files I wanted to preserve on /Crypt. This use of links kept data writing to /Crypt and in so doing kept it separate from the OS drive. So /home/user1/Documents -->/Crypt/user1/Documents, /home/user1/Pictures --> /Crypt/user1/Pictures, etc. etc. This link was invisible to the user. The data files from software likewise can be linked, /home/user1/.thunderbird --> /Crypt/user1/.thunderbird; which was great for recovering the mail client and other softeware. This set-up was born of having put /home on /Crypt at first but if you migrated to a new distro or recovered from failure you tended to inherit artifacts which the new system choked on. This process proved to be a cleaner foundation from which to recover/reinstall. One had only reinstall a clean OS on the 120 then re-link, the data was never touched during the installation process. Proved so effective that I preferred do clean installs from OS iteration to the next as opposed to upgrading. There are some pros/cons to soft/hard links so research for the trade-offs.
Mostly I replied because I wanted to give a thumbs up to doing things this way. I also do this, and it makes everything so much easier, and safer, and convenient. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
Stan:
How exactly do you manage mounting the larger drive under a different name (whether /crypt or some other name) and setting up/maintaining the link structure? Seems to me you have to rebuild it every time you (a) reinstall the OS or (b) add or remove users. It also seems to me that mounting the larger drive as /home accomplishes the same goal. Why doesn't it?
Temlakos