Subj : Re: Partitions setup; good?
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Aug 17 2020 08:41:00

 Me>  pa> Am I correct?
 Me> Yes, mostly =)
 Me> The main things you want to keep whenever you re-install any distro is
 Me> your /home folder but if you're changing between flavours of distros,
 Me> like say mint to ubuntu, things probably would be ok to also have /usr
 Me> and /usr/local as partitions to keep too.
 Me> 
 Me> However if you're swapping distros like say from Fedora to Ubuntu, or
 Me> from Mint to CentOS as an example, some of the applications might not
 Me> work properly, or even at all, so then you probably would want to
 Me> install over the applications in /usr and /usr/local as well.

Yea, thats what I was talking about up there. Ok, so I guess I should also
invest more time in learning the exact file structure of linux. I thought
/bin was where my apps were.. 

 Me> At work we have separate partitions for / /home /var /usr /usr/local /tmp
 Me> /root /boot for most projects.

Ok... that helps too, knowing how you tackle this is a production setting...
As a home user, I don't think I need to go overboard... but this is nice to
know. :P 

 Me> Not sure if any of this helps, or at least confirms what you already
 Me> know =)

VERY much so. The other replies were great and helpful... yours delivered the
answers that I needed. Thanks a ton - I think I'll use more of what you
described on another laptop I have laying around and then actually switching
some distros after a month. :P THANKS.

 Me> Good luck, glad you're spending time with Linux and enjoying it. I've
 Me> been running Ubuntu on my pc's and laptops for years now.

:P I hopped around a lot... and ARCH system was customizable, but almost to
much... KDE Neon was cool, but finicky and had many bugs- even if they were
user-creations.. :P I ended up on Kubuntu, I like the ease of Ubuntu and
being able to change anything I WANT to w/ KDE... 

Appreciate ya, ML... thx.



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