Re: Case for an occasional system refresh or clean install

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On 06/18/2014 08:56 AM, Temlakos wrote:
> With /home partitioned off separately (as an LVM partition), I assume
> I can install F21 "cleanly" in the / partition without risking losing
> the contents of /home or my access to them. But I still have to write
> down every modification I made to a configuration file--or else keep
> copies of those files in /home. They would include, I also assume,
> things like the files holding the UIDs, GIDs, and passwords for Users
> and Groups.
>
> That's the only reason I don't plan to do a clean install every time.
> But I wouldn't mind doing it every other time, or every third time. To
> make sure these cumulative errors don't build up again.
>
> Again, I offer this to provide some insight into problems that we
> "amateur system administrators" sometimes have.
I'll bet some of those issues might have gone away if you had removed
the .* files in your home directory... .kde* , .gnome* ....
compare a new user environment to your old existing user, to see if
things are any different..

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

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