On 06/18/2014 09:15 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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..
I don't deny I have noticed some differences. In fact, I took care to
keep my migration of hidden files to a minimum. Things like the
Thunderbird folder, that had all my e-mail accounts, local folders, and
so on. And the config folders for two torrent peers I have loaded, so I
didn't have to restart all my torrents.
The only thing is, every account on the old machine had the same
black-rectangle problem. Nothing would do to solve it.
Nothing, that is, but the clean install. But I think what you're saying
is, the secret might have been that I brought selected files to a new
/home partition, not so much that I re-installed all applications.
Temlakos
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