Some newbie questions

[Bat Phil]

Got it Marvin, cheers

Phil



On 5 September 2014 19:56, Marvin Kosmal <mkosmal at gmail.com> wrote:

> No ..
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> You need to recreate all the users accounts on the new install.
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> HTH
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> Marvin
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> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Bat Phil <batphil64 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for your reply Joe.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks again
>> Phil
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>> On 5 September 2014 19:36, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
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>>> On 09/05/2014 11:10 AM, Bat Phil wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>> ~/.thunderbird to be exact.
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>>>  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?
>>>>
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>>> 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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