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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 27 November 2012 13:41:16 Randy Barlow wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:01:28 -0500, Michael Orlitzky |
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>> <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> You can work around it fairly easily, though. Just mount all of your |
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>>> version-independent stuff separately, under ~/Documents or whatever. |
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>>> Or never go back to Ubuntu =) |
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>> This is good advice. Another potential solution is to use symlinks to |
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>> map the OS-dependent files to the right places. |
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>> Or you could make /home/username be OS dependent, with another OS |
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>> independent volume mounted somewhere, perhaps /home/os_independent. |
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> My solution is to have a separate partition called 'common' which I |
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> mount under my user home directory in whichever Linux I'm running at the |
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> time. Then anything I think I might need anywhere I just put in |
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> /home/prh/common/... |
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I used to have something similar myself. I had a directory called |
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/data. It had everything that I wouldn't want to lose even if I |
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switched OS's or something. I always had it on a separate drive too. I |
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kept documents, pictures, videos and such in there. This started back |
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when I was switching from Mandrake to Gentoo. I only recently got rid |
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of it and moved everything to my home directory like it should be since |
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I only have one distro. That took me almost 10 years to change. lol |
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I read the other day that Seamonkey says that going back a version could |
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lead to data loss. It will actually detect that it is running a older |
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version and renames some file to .old or something. The old |
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settings/data would be lost. I'm not sure but Firefox may do something |
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similar. I wouldn't be surprised if other apps do this too. I think |
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they should support going back at least a few versions. I can see them |
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not going back to Seamonkey V1 tho. |
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OP, I would get my feet wet and when you get used to Gentoo and decide |
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whether you are going to keep it or switch, then move things to a more |
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permanent location. Just be very careful when deleting things. That rm |
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command is pretty unforgiving. Sometimes, links can get you into trouble. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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