Some newbie questions

Marvin Kosmal mkosmal at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 18:56:18 UTC 2014


No ..

You need to recreate all the users accounts on the new install.

HTH

Marvin





On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Bat Phil <batphil64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Joe.
>
> I figured (but didn't make it clear) that I'd have to tell anaconda about
> the existing home partition on the second drive. I was wondering more about
> whether it would then automatically create the pre-existing user accounts
> and whether all previous e-mails and settings would be preserved and
> available under the new install.
>
> Thanks again
> Phil
>
>
>
> On 5 September 2014 19:36, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
>
>> On 09/05/2014 11:10 AM, Bat Phil wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 3. Am I correct in my assumption that my mail client (I will be using
>>> Thunderbird) stores all its e-mails and settings in a hidden directory
>>> within the home directory?
>>>
>>>
>> ~/.thunderbird to be exact.
>>
>>  4. If I do a reinstall later, will the OS pick up that I already have
>>> the home directory structure on a separate drive and automatically
>>> configure to it or will I have to do a bit of tinkering?
>>>
>>
>> The installer has no way of knowing how you want your various partitions
>> mounted unless you tell it.  To do what you want, you need to create a
>> custom partitioning layout, which is quite simple.  You specify what
>> partition is mounted where, tell anaconda how you want it formatted or, if
>> you want to keep the data, that it's not to be formatted.  Generally
>> speaking, /home is the only partition not formatted, but there are
>> exceptions, such as if you have a complete drive dedicated to a video
>> collection and want it mounted as (let's say) /video.
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