Retaining home directory data during remaster

[Member Danathar]

I’ve been playing around with remaster so I can better understand the consequences of choosing this or that.

I boot up using p_static_root

Lets say I create a file in my home directory (not in the live-usb-storage) and call it test.txt

Unless I tell the remaster (using personal) to save /home to the new linuxfs file my test.txt (and anything else, like .vim configuration files, etc) are NOT going to get put into the new remastered system correct?

I guess I’m just confirming because I did a test and that was what happened. It would seem to me though you would WANT you home directory data to be retained after a personal remaster, so I don’t understand the case where you are looking to blast everything in /home after a personal remaster. For instance, .vim or a .ssh folder which by default are home to be in /home/user which it seems you would want to keep.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Danathar.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Hi!

Think of it more as a confirmation question.
There may be a situation where user doesn’t want their live user settings saved on remaster/persistence eg Firefox browsing and bank details.

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[Member Danathar]

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Thanks! I think I’m grokking it now 😉

[Member seaken64]

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If you want to set up a system for someone else then you can make up the remaster without your own personal files. Set the remaster to general and then the new user can setup their own preferences in their own /home/user folder after install.

Seaken64

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Also a possible senario:
You are tight on disk space or you have large files in /home (but not in ~/Live-usb-storage), that you don’t need built into the remaster file.

I had a situation like this, where I was using home persistence, but I was starting to run short on disk space. Since I had the home persistence file, omitting the /home hierachy from the remaster made a smaller linuxfs file (remaster file), and eveything in /home was still there, so long as I used home persistence.

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