On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 14:09 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:25 -0400, Christopher L Tubbs II wrote: > > Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > [snip] > > Personally, I think the decision to have a username in the list is an > > administrator one, and the decision for the image is a user one. ACK. > But when I (like many) upgrade from one version of fedora to the next, > the /home partition is the only thing that is preserved. Well, you will want to preserve more, such as /var/ftp, /var/www, /srv and a lot of other stuff below /etc and /var. > The rest of the file system is replaced with a new one (often including > a format). So /etc isn't going to still contain this images. > > I suspect most users (and sysadmins, don't want to have to replace the > images each time the upgrade and having them in /home is a good place to > preserve them across installs. /home is a bad place for networked environments, which have /home/<user> distributed across a network, because fetching such images would trigger a lot of traffic (consider conditionally auto-mounted user-homes). Ralf -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
