On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:27 PM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Could you please suggest me the best way to copy the home directory > > to a new computer? > > If you want a simple long-term solution to this problem, take your old > hard drive, and add it to your new computer, after you have installed > your OS to the new computer. Then set up new user accounts to use the > old drive's home directory, or modify any existing accounts to do that, > or simply use /etc/fstab to mount /home onto the directory tree from > the second drive (I think the latter is the easiest approach). > > If you plan to use a computer across several different releases, and > don't want to work out how to transfer user's homespaces across each > release, it's easier to *not* do that. Have the OS and home on > separate drives. > > Each new release installation can be done over the top of the old OS > drive without losing any data on your home drive. And if you're wary > that you might accidentally install to the wrong drive, you can always > unplug it for the installation period. > > There's probably a few other directories that some people might want to > keep on the second drive, for the same reason. Such as /var/www, if > they serve websites. Likewise with databases. Thanks to all for your help. Done! Paul _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
