[ale] Ubuntu to Debian Switch?

[James Sumners]

Sure. That's what your home directory is for -- to keep your data
separate from the system data. There's nothing special in your home
directory other than some dot files/directories. If an application
doesn't work like you expect, remove its config and restart it.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:28 PM, David Tomaschik
<david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
> I do NOT want to discuss Ubuntu's ethics on this thread.  There's a
> separate thread for that.
>
> Has anyone switched from Ubuntu to Debian and kept /home around?  I
> currently have an eCryptFS-encrypted /home dir, and I'd like to keep
> that encryption, my preferences, and my data intact.  /home is a
> separate partition (actually an LV on LVM on software RAID-1), so I
> should just be able to blow Ubuntu away and install pure Debian,
> right?  (I'm thinking Debian testing...)
>
> --
> David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1
> System Administrator/Open Source Advocate
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> http://systemoverlord.com
> david at systemoverlord.com



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