On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:03 -0500, RedWagon wrote: > The cool part is I was able to just tar my .wine directory, put it on > another hard drive, untar it back into the new operating system and > everything worked without having to reinstall anything. I even > upgraded from 1.1.17 to 1.1.19 and it went off without a hitch. > For your future reference, you can do even better than that if you're willing to define a custom disk layout next time you install a distro. The trick is this: define an additional ext3 partition and size it to hold the complete /home directory structure, taking the space from the default root partition and telling the installer that this partition is to be used for /home. Then for future clean installs you reformat all partitions EXCEPT /home, manually assign uid(s) and gid(s) to match those used in the /home partition and suddenly your normal login(s) are back and set up exactly as they used to be, desktop images and all. Martin
