AJackson wrote:
> On Mar 20, 5:48 am, "John F. Morse" <xanadu....@example.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Which is easy to change. Just edit /etc/passwd, and it is solved.
>

Thanks. I'll remember that if I should try openSuse again. Hopefully
openSuse isn't using (or won't use) UID 1000 for something else.

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John

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