Some newbie questions

[Marvin Kosmal]

HI

I am not on a fedora box right now but, if memory serves me right.  All
users are kept in /etc/shadow/  and the other file would be /etc/passwd.
If you copies those two files over I believe  you would be OK..

Someone can second this.  I haven't done this in a LONG time.

HTH

Marvin



On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Bat Phil <batphil64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Got it Marvin, cheers
>
> Phil
>
>
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> On 5 September 2014 19:56, Marvin Kosmal <mkosmal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No ..
>>
>> You need to recreate all the users accounts on the new install.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Marvin
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>>
>>
>>
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>> 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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