On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > The subject line says it all. I have an old RH8 server that I'd like to > upgrade to FC3; trouble is, said server has about 10GB of music files sitting > on the /home partition of hda. My thought is to pop in a second hard drive, > mount it and copy all of the files in the /home partition to /dev/hdab, then > wipe out hda and install FC3 fresh. > > Before I embark on this, though, I need to know if this is a stupid plan. I > know that simply popping in the FC3 disks and trying to do an upgrade is > bound to be problematic. If your /home is a separate partition - you can do a fresh FC3 install while preserving /home But if its just /home that you are worried about - you might as well make a backup - over the network using rsync [assuming you have another machine on the network with sufficient disk space] Satish
