Many thanks to the team for all their work on the Distro...and on this forum!!
Been using Peppermint for about 18 months, and this is my first installation problem - quite possibly self-induced.
I have just completed a fresh installation of the new Pep Debian, but did something I now realise was a bit daft: I didn't mount my home partition during the installation process - I chose the manual option, but only set up the boot and root partitions (not even swap!). My idea was to boot in, change the /etc/fstab file, remove the newly installed home directories, set up symlinks and then reboot. Well doing this reinstated the personalisations from my old installation and broke the pep hub - nothing happens when I attempt to go into it. I now know the .config file sits in /home.
My intention is to reinstall, unless advised otherwise. My questions are:
1) Is there anything I should do in preparation for reinstalling? I've backed up my data, but would prefer not to wipe my /home partition!
2) By mounting my /home partition, does the installer overwrite or archive the configuration files from the old installation?
3) I'm guessing that having these configuration files in my /home partition would make it difficult to dual boot distros while sharing a /home partition? I was considering doing this to access some KDE tools without needing to use snaps/flatpaks.
It looks like by what you want to do, you will have to experiment and accept the worse should it happen. So List your current Home partition as your mount point for your new Home partition and don't reformat it. But if you're going to dual boot, make another partition for the second OS and format it as ext4. Before any of this, I would recommend reading up on making DATA partitions and using symlinks.
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Thanks @alynur and I sorry I didn't report back earlier. I found that as soon as I unmounted my data partition the conflict was resolved and access to the Pep Hub restored. So I am now keeping symlinks/mounting of my data file completely clear of home!! I'll clear out the old configuration files when I get around to it.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Many thanks to the team for all their work on the Distro...and on this forum!!
Been using Peppermint for about 18 months, and this is my first installation problem - quite possibly self-induced.
I have just completed a fresh installation of the new Pep Debian, but did something I now realise was a bit daft: I didn't mount my home partition during the installation process - I chose the manual option, but only set up the boot and root partitions (not even swap!). My idea was to boot in, change the /etc/fstab file, remove the newly installed home directories, set up symlinks and then reboot. Well doing this reinstated the personalisations from my old installation and broke the pep hub - nothing happens when I attempt to go into it. I now know the .config file sits in /home.
My intention is to reinstall, unless advised otherwise. My questions are:
1) Is there anything I should do in preparation for reinstalling? I've backed up my data, but would prefer not to wipe my /home partition!
2) By mounting my /home partition, does the installer overwrite or archive the configuration files from the old installation?
3) I'm guessing that having these configuration files in my /home partition would make it difficult to dual boot distros while sharing a /home partition? I was considering doing this to access some KDE tools without needing to use snaps/flatpaks.
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It looks like by what you want to do, you will have to experiment and accept the worse should it happen. So List your current Home partition as your mount point for your new Home partition and don't reformat it. But if you're going to dual boot, make another partition for the second OS and format it as ext4. Before any of this, I would recommend reading up on making DATA partitions and using symlinks.
Thanks @alynur and I sorry I didn't report back earlier. I found that as soon as I unmounted my data partition the conflict was resolved and access to the Pep Hub restored. So I am now keeping symlinks/mounting of my data file completely clear of home!! I'll clear out the old configuration files when I get around to it.