Allegedly, on or about 01 November 2015, jd1008 sent:
To make matters easy for the future, you can move the /home dir to
another partition, or better yet to another drive so it is never
affected by fresh installs of your choice of distro onto the boot
drive. The boot drive can have a symlink to the actual partition or
drive containing /home.
Or /home can be a mount point in /etc/fstab (which is the usual way of
handling a separate /home partition or drive). Using symlinks could end
up with some SELinux shenanigans.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
Linux servers are always being dæmonised...