On or about 2004-01-24 12:00, Rodolfo J. Paiz whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and scribbled:<sir snisapot>
For instance, I stuck in an old 20 GB drive and mount it as /extra, and point up2date to /extra/spool/up2date. I also keep bits and pieces of personal data there, and if I should need to re-install I don't format that partition :-) And when I up-graded from RH9 to FC1, I first moved the big pile of RH9 updates to another directory on /extra, in case I needed to re-install RH9.
I keep /home on a separate partition.
I use rsync to back up /home/rme (my login) to my kids windows box with the CD burner. I switched from Debian to Fedora and Mozilla mail didn't even blink. You just don't add any users when you install, then you add them after you have the new /home mounted. I had to a chown -R as the user IDs did not match.
Robert
