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Mark9

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## Re: Not formatting /home

Sat Feb 04, 2017 4:41 am

After installing my remaster to the first smaller partition, I should also be able to do the editing and transferring of the hard drives /home/mark hidden configuration files, etc., by booting up the live DVD remaster I created, and using it to make all the changes. This way I don't have to kill a display manager. Correct?
Use Caja file manager to make sure the two hard drive partitions are mounted. Close this instance of Caja.
Then simply use ALT F2 to open a "run box" and enter gksudo caja or sudo caja, whatever works, open fstab from the root accessed caja file manager with Pluma text editor, which will also have root access. Should be able to make all changes this way, yes?
fsmithred

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## Re: Not formatting /home

Sat Feb 04, 2017 12:22 pm

Yeah, you can do it all from the live session in a gui. I like to boot into the new install at least once to make sure it works before I start moving stuff around.
Mark9

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## Re: Not formatting /home

Sun Feb 05, 2017 1:07 am

Thank you much. Will give this a go at some point. Not done messing with Ubuntu-Mate just yet.
I thought you may like to see how I do my desktop layouts. This pic is of my current Ubuntu-Mate layout, but is exactly how I do it with Debian-Mate and with slightly more work Debian-Xfce.
I found this layout to be very efficient. Two extra panels with just program launchers. Left is internet software, top is media software. These two and sometimes also the bottom panel set to autohide. Can not put a panel to the right as it will interfere with mousing over the scroll bars in programs.
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