[Gllug] Home sweet home

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 28 Dec, John G Walker wrote:
> 
> I've just installed OpenSuSE 11.2 on my test machine, and it went
> through a breeze This was something of a relief, since I've never
> actually updated a Linux OS before.
> 
> However, I've now got what I hope is a minor problem, SuSE
> automatically allocates new partitions for its installation, thus, in
> the first instance, making things easy for a dummy like me. In
> particular, the default is to create /home on a separate partition to
> everything else. This, I have been told, is the way to enable my data

> to be accessible to the new OS.

   The problem you need to get round is that your personal settings for the
new system will be in your new /home, which will probably not match those
for your old /home, although your general files and data from the old /home
can be shared. You could automount your old /home partition as something
like /old_home (is it /etc/fstab for SuSE?) and then create one or more
symlinks to the relevant personal files using

ln -s [old_filename] [new filename]

see man ln

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