AJackson wrote:

> You really want a separate /home partition, as it is where you have
> your personal data, like Todd wants. It's just no device letter in
> Unix/Linux. All partitions/disks are invinsible to the a normal
> user. When you change directory, you could change disk, or not.
> Anyway, separate /home partition is a good idé if you want to
> reinstall or install another linux distribution, you could have access
> to you personal data from all of them. Just tell them to mount the
> home disk at /home

Be careful here. A separate /home partition is very good to have, but
creating access from "foreign" distros can cause permission problems.

Some time back I added an openSuse 10.3 distro to a development PC that
had Windows 98SE, Fedora Core 3, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Ubuntu 7.10, Debian
3.1, and Debian 4.0, which was the previously installed distro, and had
a very large /home partition. I assigned this /home partition in the
openSuse partition editor thinking I could easily access the same files.

Of course I used the same username, but openSuse used a different UID.
Debian had me assigned a UID of 1000, while openSuse assigned 1001. This
caused all kinds of permissions problems, but thankfully, after I
removed openSuse, I recursively chown and chgrp throughout my ~/ and put
the Debian distro back to normal. I lost nothing but some time.

Most likely there is some method to force openSuse to start numbering
UIDs at 1000, but I didn't have time to research it.

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John

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