06-16-2012
Personally I reserve /home for system user home directories and use a totally different directory tree on its own mountpoint(s) for the user home directories.
Some Administrators use soft links from /home to user home directories on another filesystem. I don't, though it is a valid approach.
For the system data in say root, /usr, and /var, I would backup every significant configuration file and restore (or blend) those files as appropriate after an upgrade. Rehearse on an expendable test system until you get it right. It's not easy.
Last edited by methyl; 06-16-2012 at 08:11 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
unburden-home-dir
UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1) User Commands UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)
NAME
unburden-home-dir - unburdens home directories from caches and trashes
SYNOPSIS
unburden-home-dir [ -n | -u | -f filter ]
unburden-home-dir ( -h | --help | --version )
DESCRIPTION
unburden-home-dir unburdens the home directory from files and directory which cause high I/O or disk usage but are neither important if
they are lost, e.g. caches or trash directory.
When being run it moves the files and directories given in the configuration file to a location outside the home directory, e.g. /tmp or
/scratch, and puts appropriate symbolic links in the home directory instead.
OPTIONS
-f just unburden those directory matched by the given filter (a perl regular expression) -- matches the already unburdened directories
if used together with -u.
-F Do not check for files in use with lsof before (re)moving files.
-n dry run (show what would be done)
-u undo (reverse the functionality and put stuff back into the home directory)
-h, --help
show this help
--version
show the program's version
EXAMPLES
Example configuration files can be found at /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/examples on Debian-based systems and in the etc/ directory of
the source tar ball.
FILES
/etc/unburden-home-dir, /etc/unburden-home-dir.list, ~/.unburden-home-dir, ~/.unburden-home-dir.list, /etc/default/unburden-home-dir,
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/95unburden-home-dir
Read /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/README on debianoid installations or README in the source tar ball for an explanation of these files.
SEE ALSO
corekeeper (http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper), autotrash(1), agedu(1), bleachbit(1).
For du(1)-like but more comfortable tools, see ncdu(1) (text-mode), baobab(1) (GNOME), filelight(1) (KDE), xdiskusage(1) (X tool calling
du(1) itself), or xdu(1) (X tool reading du(1) output from STDIN).
AUTHOR
Unburden Home Dir is written and maintained by Axel Beckert <beckert@phys.ethz.ch>
LICENSE
Unburden Home Dir is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version at your option.
Unburden Home Directory May 2012 UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)