On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:13:55 -0500 fred roller <fredroller66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have done this type of set up on my systems before so what its > worth I will share how I installed and where applicable, why. Good read. I'll keep it around for future reference. > | 5. In general, should I place a partition for anything other > than /home on the 1 TB SSD? > This will explain how/why I put /home on the 120 [smaller drive]. > Through the use of hard/soft links to folders in /Crypt I connected > the data files I wanted to preserve on /Crypt. This use of links > kept data writing to /Crypt and in so doing kept it separate from the > OS drive. So /home/user1/Documents > -->/Crypt/user1/Documents, /home/user1/Pictures > --> /Crypt/user1/Pictures, etc. etc. This link was invisible to the > user. The data files from software likewise can be > linked, /home/user1/.thunderbird --> /Crypt/user1/.thunderbird; which > was great for recovering the mail client and other softeware. This > set-up was born of having put /home on /Crypt at first but if you > migrated to a new distro or recovered from failure you tended to > inherit artifacts which the new system choked on. This process proved > to be a cleaner foundation from which to recover/reinstall. One had > only reinstall a clean OS on the 120 then re-link, the data was never > touched during the installation process. Proved so effective that I > preferred do clean installs from OS iteration to the next as opposed > to upgrading. There are some pros/cons to soft/hard links so > research for the trade-offs. Mostly I replied because I wanted to give a thumbs up to doing things this way. I also do this, and it makes everything so much easier, and safer, and convenient. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
