I've tried it before with a fresh install and had problems with proper icons and backgrounds loading. Do you think it's worth it as long as I have all my music on 2 different mp3 players and backup my documents on external drive before installing?
I've tried it before with a fresh install and had problems with proper icons and backgrounds loading. Do you think it's worth it as long as I have all my music on 2 different mp3 players and backup my documents on external drive before installing?
Whoever came up with the phrase "There is no such thing as a stupid question" obviously never had the internet.
If you intend on doing a lot of fresh installs or distro hopping, then yes. If not, then I see no reason to bother.
Would a separate data partition be a better idea? That way I can have 1 central location for windows and linux data? I still boot into windows for when I have to use excel and would be nice to only have 1 copy of my files on the computer
Whoever came up with the phrase "There is no such thing as a stupid question" obviously never had the internet.
usually I do use /home so I can reinstall or swap OS's but I usually end up
doing fresh install anyway. just remove any file with .XXXXX in /home and then you will only save your files not all the OS stuff but then I usually decide to clean it all and copy what I want to the my server so it is a waste for me to use /home but I do it anyway
This was recently mulled over - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1854501
A separate data partition sounds like a good idea to me. You can even "bind" portions of the partition to your home folder. For example:
Let's say you create a data partition formatted in NTFS ( and I would do this in Windows btw ) and mount it automatically to /WinD in fstab:
Then create a set of subfolders in /WinD like: Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc...Code:UUID=DA9056C19056A3B3 /WinD ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,dmask=000,fmask=111,uid=1000,windows_names 0 0
Then bind /WinD/Pictures to /home/username/Pictures:
You can set up your own upstart job to have all these "binds" start on boot automatically ( POST #41 ): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...2#post10899012Code:sudo mount --bind /WinD/Pictures /home/username/Pictures
You can also do this with symlinks but I personally hate symlinks
Last edited by Morbius1; October 11th, 2011 at 03:26 PM.
Whoever came up with the phrase "There is no such thing as a stupid question" obviously never had the internet.
I don't know about the relative size of each of those partitions but one note of caution:
If that means documents, pictures, etc then that's fine since you're mounting the partition with you as owner and any file you add to them will also be owned by you.I would store everything of importance on that partition.
But NTFS partitions don't preserve Linux file permissions so if you do a backup of certain files like fstab, smb.conf, etc.. without creating an archive like a tar file then the original permissions on those will be lost.
You might consider adding an additional Linux Data partition for those type of things.
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