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   Richard Kettlewell to Eli the Bearded   
   Re: "7 deprecated Linux commands you nee   
   29 Jan 26 08:49:11   
   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:   
   > Richard Kettlewell   wrote:   
   >> Or apply the KISS principle and have /home on the root partition.   
   >   
   > My "KISS" principles have me keep /home on a separate drive, so I can   
   > move it between devices easily. When I has having computer issues   
   > earlier this year, I could just pop /home out and put it on an older   
   > computer while I fixed the hardware problem.   
      
   Whatever works for you, of course. My response to similar situations has   
   been to move or copy the entire system to the new hardware. That way it   
   works the same as the old setup. If you only move /home then all the   
   state and configuration that lives outside /home[1] gets left behind and   
   your computer doesn’t work the same any more.   
      
   [1] e.g. users, groups, the set of installed packages, crontabs,   
       networking configuration, host keys, PAM config, to name but a few.   
      
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