On Sat, 23 Jul 2022, Mark Phillips wrote:
I tried to upgrade my computer from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, and
something messed up. No worries, I had a backup, so I wiped out the old
18.04 and installed 20.04. I have 2 drives in the system: 1 TB and 4TB. The
1 TB has 20.04 installed and the 4 TB has the backup from the old 18.04
system. I mounted the 4TB drive at /4TB.
I think I have 2 options:
* In /etc/fstab: mount /4TB/backup/home/mark /home/mark none bind
* create a symbolic link from /home/mark to /4TB/backup/home/mark (assuming
/home/mark is empty)
Which would you recommend?
Mark,
I'm not as knowledgeable as most folks here, yet I'll offer a comment or
two.
My interpretation of what you wrote is that your 1TB drive holds the OS as
well as /home and all other user partitions. And the 4TB drive holds the old
OS version as well as /home and all other user partitions. Is this correct?
Why not keep the OS on the 1TB drive and put /home, all your python, java,
video editing, writing, and data on the 4 TB drive? Then /etc/fstab on the
system (1 TB drive) is the only one changed when you upgrade OS versions and
all your applications, data, and other non-OS stuff lives on the 4TB and
stays the same from OS version-to-version?
Rich
