Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

I want to make a comment on this thread that is at least a little bit (maybe a 
lot) off point, it is more a suggestion on what might be a better way next time 
(although it could be done this time with a little work, I believe).  Because 
I don't see a good place to put this comment in context, I'm deleting almost 
all of the quoted material and then top posting.

I avoid /home as much as I possibly (or at least reasonably) can.  I did it 
for different reasons than the reason I'm going to suggest it now, so I won't 
go into those, at least for now (well, ok, basically, I got frustrated once 
when I did something that I thought was innocent and wiped out all my "real 
user data" (that is things like my documents, code, photos, etc.) when I did 
something dumb and wiped out home.

I would suggest moving (or renaming) all of your "real user data" (for Gene 
that would presumably include CNC instructions for various things he makes on 
his machinery) -- put all of that in a new top level directory (mine, on 
different computers are variations of /<username>nn).

Let the system use /home/<username> for whatever it wants, and don't worry 
about it if it gets lost.

Doing what I describe might require some gymnastics with respect to keeping 
things like mail out of /home, but I did that.  And various databases and 
backups seem to get created in /home/<username>, but it seems to be stuff that 
can be recreated and maybe is recreated automatically under some circumstances 
if it disappears.

For Gene, he could conceivably just rename the RAID setup that he has mounted 
under /home to some new top level mountpoint.  (Although he probably has some 
scripts or similar stuff that looks for stuff in /home/<username> that would 
need to be modifed.

FWIW

On Thursday, June 09, 2022 06:04:08 AM gene heskett wrote:
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