I would like to distro hop to EndeavourOS, and it has been suggested that I use rclone to copy my home folder to an external SSD. Unfortunately, I don’t have an external SSD at the moment, but I do have a phone that has plenty of free space. Is it a good idea to back up my computer files to an Android phone? My gut says it’s not a very good idea, but I’m not sure why.

  • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    /home is not on a separate partition, no. Yeah an external disk will probably be better

      • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Indeed that seems to be a good idea. When I do reinstall to “distro-hop”, I’ll try to do that then. How big should the “system”/non-home partition be?

        • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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          6 days ago

          How long is a piece of string?

          Really depends on what you install.

          ‘du -hs /usr /var’ to get a rough idea.