On 12/17/2017 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On
12/17/2017 11:55 AM, fred roller wrote:
Main thing to remember is KISS. This is a
simple way to have the normal drop points of data redirected to
the larger drive.
If you really want to KISS, just migrate /home to the new drive
and be done with it.
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Hold on a minute, Joe. If I understand Fred correctly, the system
does certain things to the /home directory and each user directory
that he did not repeat /not/ want preserved, and no one else should,
either. And I can believe it. I've noticed some flakiness when
slavishly preserving my main user directory, that didn't happen when
I simply "created" my other "users" /de novo/ with every clean
install. The flakiness gets worse with every iteration. (You
developers who are monitoring this list, are you monitoring this
thread? Consider this my formal protest of a certain amount of
carelessness, hint, hint, hint!) I attribute that to the kind of
hidden file that needs doing away with.
I would add ~/bin to the list, plus a few others I've created, along
with a custom bashrc script that sets the PATH to include my own bin
directory. But otherwise his principle is a sound one.
I at first thought as you do, Joe: just mount the larger directory
as /home and have done with it. I used to do just that when I
jerry-built systems having more than one HDD, that I had cobbled
together from a few "antique" systems. The problem: that still
leaves the system to throw things into /home that one can best do
away with. One can do that most easily by doing clean installations
on the system drive with every iteration, or at least every other
iteration.
Now I have one more question, and this is for Fred or Stan. Should
any physical directories named Documents, Downloads, Music,
Pictures, Video, etc., remain on the actual /home mount? Or should
they exist physically only on the /crypt mount (meaning the larger
user-data drive) and only symlinks remain in ~? (Remember: ~ =
/home/username where /username/ is the name of the user account.)
Understand: I want a clean separation between useful data on the one
hand, and configuration on the other--except for things like
Thunderbird where I want to preserve e-mail accounts and extensive
e-mail databases. (I understand why you didn't bother with Chrome's
configuration data. But what about Firefox?)
I genuinely appreciate this discussion and the direction it has
taken, more than some of you might know. I've had a bellyful of the
flakiness that gets worse with every "system upgrade" I've done--to
the point where even KDE's Apper program crashes on launch every
single time.
I wonder: am I the first here to build a system with all SDD drives?
Or has any other subscriber to this list done that?
Temlakos