The /home directory or partition contains user-specific configuration files, caches, application data and media files.
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Stacked filesystems with write-back
I need to setup a system where a laptop and a desktop computers coexist.
The idea is, I bring the laptop into the network and the laptop syncs the /home directory( with some exceptions) with the ...
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Modifying $HOME variable on a session startup script: Gnome ignores it?
I'm modifying the $HOME variable on a /etc/profile.d script. This seems to be OK for console sessions.
There are some caveats on graphical sessions, though: Gnome won't load my desktop ...
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/home is Read Only after coming out of screensaver (intermittent)
I am using Linux Mint 13 (Maya) and I have my "/home" partition formatted as ext4 and mounted at "dev/sdc1".
Occasionally I have a strange problem coming up that looks a lot like this bug that I ...
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Thunar trash can works on one fs but not another
Thunar won't delete files from $HOME (see Can't find or create trash while deleting files) but will do so from other file systems on the same machine?
ron@haggis:~$ dir .local/share/Trash
total ...
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Multiple Linux or Unix Distributions, Same Home Partition or Data?
To avoid conflicts I have always installed multiple Linux and Unix distributions each with it's own home partion or directory, and in the era of 3TB hard drives this is often very practical; I also do ...
