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Interesting, is this feasible in everyday life? I do not use Linux on my desktop or notebook but I would like to do so in the near future. This means I should
by bluegreyred 6y ago
Interesting, is this feasible in everyday life?
I do not use Linux on my desktop or notebook but I would like to do so in the near future. This means I should strive to keep all my user created data within the home directory at all times?
How about program preferences and configs that get saved elsewhere by default?
I imagine having ZFS snapshots of / would be useful for updates going forward.
- viraptor 6y agoI've gone through 3 laptops now with a migrated home. That included ubuntu -> arch -> fedora migration too. It works pretty well. (with more issues between distros than between version upgrades) > This means I should strive to keep all my user created data within the home directory at all times? Why would the user have privileges to save it outside of the home directory? :) Special cases like databases with storage in /var need to be handled separately.
- e12e 6y ago> How about program preferences and configs that get saved elsewhere by default? Nothing goes (should go) elsewhere by default. If you're wiping the distro and re-installing - you probably don't want to keep /etc anyway. Fwiw Ubuntu in place lts to lts release upgrade should be solid. But sometimes you want start with new, contemporary defaults, or a different disk layout. BTW with zfs, you can have a separate home (or home/your_user) filesystem, and not worry about allocating fixed space (thus running out of free space on /, but with more available in /home and vice-versa).