[TriLUG] Ubuntu reinstall and copying over /home

[Kenneth Parker via TriLUG]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 7:58 AM Matthew Glassman via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Okay I tarballed my /home directory as a gzip file onto an external drive.
> It was not its own partition. I reinstalled Ubuntu and made /home it’s own
> partition this time in the setup.  Can someone guide me through how I
> should move the tarball file back to the new install as my /home ?  I also
> copied my sources.list file for apt and a few other directories like /opt
> /usr if it would be good to put those back on.
>

Due to some of the Caveats from the other Responders (especially issues
with dot files), I do not take your approach.  Instead, especially if I
have a large Hard Drive, I create a permanent Share Partition, which I name
"bighome". And then, I am consistent with the order of the user names that
I create, so that they have the same uid numbers. Bighome is heavily used!

If there is a reason to segregate the Partitions, I create directories on
bighome with the partition (or computer) names.

Good luck!

Regards,
> Matthew
>

Kenneth Parker

>