Saving Home Directory And Other Settings
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sat Oct 30 02:37:11 UTC 2004
Graydon wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:09:29PM -0400, Robert L Cochran scripsit:
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>>I'm downloading RC5 at this time and should have the DVD in a few more
>>hours. I'd like to do a fresh install of RC5, but for once don't want to
>>lose my home directory stuff especially my Mozilla mail folders and
>>filters. What is a good way to save these? Just tar up the .mozilla
>>directory and copy it somewhere, restoring it after the install? (Will
>>Mozilla insist on setting up a new profile, or will it use an existing
>>profile if found?)
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>It will use the existing profile if found.
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>However, why not keep /home on its own partition, and just not reformat
>it when you do the install? That way you keep everything.
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>This is what I do, and it works fine; I don't know what 'automatically
>partition' does (I've never used it :) but DiskDruid certainly gives you
>the option to leave a partition untouched. ("preserve data")
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The lightbulb goes on now! Thanks for the suggestion.
Bob
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