Clean install keeping home folder intact

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 08/21/2012 10:48 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 08:16 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> Keep in mind that you should backup your home folder even if you don't
>> intend to restore it. Otherwise, there lies madness.
> This is why I prefer desktop computers with more than one drive.  You
> put the operating system and software on one, and personal stuff on the
> other.  For a no-risk upgrade, you can unplug the personal drive during
> the upgrade.  And all you have to do, post upgrade, is make sure the
> fstab file has an entry for your personal drive.
>
> I have tried external drives, but they've all gone bad, and quite
> quickly.  They have crappy power supplies, and I think drive overheating
> and being bumped about are the two most likely causes for the drives
> failing rapidly.  Plus, you have annoyances like drives that shutdown,
> when you don't want them to, as power saving features.
>
> For computers where it was hard/impossible to fit another internal
> drive, and for multiple computers on a site used, a central file server
> was the most convenient answer for storing personal files.  Just pick an
> OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time.
>
Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?...


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