XPost: alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au   
      
   On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:54:12 -0700   
   Bobbie Sellers  wrote:   
      
   > The Mageia installer left /home alone so that the backup   
   > work I did was not needed and it only took an hour and a half.   
      
   Most distros will leave /home alone if it is on a separate partition.   
   You may have to check that they will.   
      
   If I am trialling a radically different distro, I format /home as   
   well.  One thing to watch is user ID numbers. Mageia starts user IDs at   
   500, many other distros start at 1000.  It was pointed out a while   
   back that the system looks at the number, not the name.  So if you look   
   at a listing in /home with ll, it may show the owner as 1000 instead of   
   your username.  In my case, it was giving the rtkit number to mysql,   
   and similar.  BTW, rtkit isn't rootkit, it is realtimekit.   
      
   Another thing I haven't seen before: most distros give you your own   
   group with your name.  One I looked at didn't do that.  Instead, it put   
   everybody in the "users" group.  That meant that a command-line change   
   of group didn't work until I found out what was going on.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)