On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 06:23:13 -0500
Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As I thought. Now may I also assume that you use the chown command to
re-create the ownership and group-membership structure of each
specific user directory in the new drive? And also use chmod to
re-create the permissions structure? I'm familiar enough with chown
and chmod. I've used them often enough in my days as a volunteer
developer on other sites that use UNIX.
Yep.
In any event, let me guess: whatever you create and set in the new
drive, no re-installation will ever alter. Thereafter you remove any
directories in /home/user (where /user/ is the name of a user
account) and re-establish the links, right?
Yep.
I should have figured one thing: I do this for everything that I
used
to copy over from one computer to the next when I would break in a
new(er) computer with (of necessity) a fresh (first!) installation of
Fedora. That included all the named directories, any other top-level
directories I created, and /home/user/.thunderbird in every account
that used Thunderbird regularly. (Same with Kmail, for any KDE user
who uses the "native" browser and e-mail client.)
As Tim points out, this can cause problems if configuration options
have changed. Better to just let the newer version create its own
config, try the app, and if it works the way you want, leave it the way
it is. If it doesn't work the way you want, do a diff with the old
config to see what has changed, and make changes in the new config
based on those.