Separate partition for /home

[jfg69]

I am looking at this site to set up a new partition for my /home and move my old. I had an unfortunate "incident" last night while making some room from the XP partitions. I lost 60GB of movies and other stuff from a partition I was trying to merge back to my C: drive. SO now I have really decided I NEED to do this, since I love to play around with the new distros and test both my new found knowledge and skills in all of this.
I have been looking at THISpage to get more info on this process.

This would be directed more to TheeMahn himself, Is there anything in Ultimate Edition that may break if I do this?


I have Ultimate Edition 1.4 gamers on one partition and I have the straight Gutsy RC on the other partition, and want to have all installs use this /home. At least THAT is the intention...

Comments/suggestions from any and all are welcomed!

[TheeMahn]

I am looking at this site to set up a new partition for my /home and move my old. I had an unfortunate "incident" last night while making some room from the XP partitions. I lost 60GB of movies and other stuff from a partition I was trying to merge back to my C: drive. SO now I have really decided I NEED to do this, since I love to play around with the new distros and test both my new found knowledge and skills in all of this.
I have been looking at THISpage to get more info on this process.

This would be directed more to TheeMahn himself, Is there anything in Ultimate Edition that may break if I do this?


I have Ultimate Edition 1.4 gamers on one partition and I have the straight Gutsy RC on the other partition, and want to have all installs use this /home. At least THAT is the intention...

Comments/suggestions from any and all are welcomed!

sbackup is a beautiful tool when it comes to that. Personally I don't do so, so I am of little help in this situation. I whack my drive almost daily building / testing Ultimate. Even though I have room to have each and every ultimate released to date on a separate partition I do not do so. I concentrate my time to work on upcoming releases. I suggest a read of sbackup and how it works

[jfg69]

Been browsing the info on SBACKUP.. not a lot of really helpful stuff, but it is pretty simple.

http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/03/backup-and-restore-ubuntu-system-using.html

This is one of the better tutorials for using it.

[jfg69]

Is there any reason for anything to "break" so to speak, by using a sep /home for Ultimate Edition? Is everything built in the same directory structure?

[DaddyX3]

Sounds like this is the most important thing to write down:

Restore Backup from command line

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sudo srestore.py /var/backup/backup_name/home/myuser /home/myuser/old     

I've used Sbackup to create backups (easy ) But it sounds like to me that I would need the above command more than anything!