On Friday 18 March 2016 17:55:50 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/18/2016 01:22 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > >>> Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a > >>> backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian > >>> 7 > >>> (or 8). > >> > >> Why not do a dist-upgrade? > > > > 1. The few times I tried, I ran into problems. When I was done, I had > > no little confidence in the results. I was not alone in my experience; > > upgrade and post-upgrade issues are a common subject on this list. > > I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the > root partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I > use /opt on a separate partition. There I have a $USER/ directory where > I keep all of the usual /home$USER/ sub-directories such as Music, > Video, Downloads, Documents, .mozilla , .thunderbird and the like. After > re-install I merely restore the links and I am cleanly back in business. > My two cents, Ric
Why is /opt/$USER preferable to /home/$USER from this point of view?? Lisi
