From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Richard Kettlewell wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   >> On 24/01/2026 14:15, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >>> The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   >>>> On 23/01/2026 23:33, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >>>>> What's still puzzling me here is that passwd and shadow are under /etc,   
   >>>>> so... login should work regardless of /home being mounted or not?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Many configurations are stored in /home/username   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The answer is to have a skelatal /home  populated before you mount the   
   >>>> real home volume over it   
   >>> Or apply the KISS principle and have /home on the root partition.   
   >>   
   >> The problem with that is upgrades. You really want /home out of the   
   >> way.   
   >   
   > In-place upgrades don’t normally touch /home. I’ve been doing upgrades   
   > for 30Y without isolating /home and never once has that been a problem.   
   >   
   > If your idea of an upgrade is to delete everything and reinstall from   
   > scratch then that might be another matter, but even then, the worst case   
   > is you recover /home from backup.   
      
   I periodically scp /home/me to another computer or to an external   
   drive.   
      
   One issue nags me as the years go by... what will happen to all   
   that data [photos, code, legal documents] when I croak?   
      
   :-(   
      
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   Q.  Mrs. Smith, do you believe that you are emotionally unstable?   
   A.  I should be.   
   Q.  How many times have you comitted suicide?   
   A.  Four times.   
      
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