Saving Home Directory And Other Settings

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sat Oct 30 02:37:11 UTC 2004


Graydon wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:09:29PM -0400, Robert L Cochran scripsit:
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>>I'm downloading RC5 at this time and should have the DVD in a few more 
>>hours. I'd like to do a fresh install of RC5, but for once don't want to 
>>lose my home directory stuff especially my Mozilla mail folders and 
>>filters. What is a good way to save these? Just tar up the .mozilla 
>>directory and copy it somewhere, restoring it after the install? (Will  
>>Mozilla insist on setting up a new profile, or will it use an existing
>>profile if found?)
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>It will use the existing profile if found.
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>However, why not keep /home on its own partition, and just not reformat
>it when you do the install?  That way you keep everything.
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>This is what I do, and it works fine; I don't know what 'automatically
>partition' does (I've never used it :) but DiskDruid certainly gives you
>the option to leave a partition untouched. ("preserve data")
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The lightbulb goes on now! Thanks for the suggestion.

Bob




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