On 02/02/2005 07:35:21 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
If your /home is a separate partition - you can do a fresh FC3 install
while preserving /home
Yes - but given that it is RH8 it is probably a good idea anyway, especially if he wants to use LVM.
There is a difference - RH8 can not fsck a FC3 ext3 partition (without updating the fsck tools anyway), I don't know what the difference is, but there clearly is one.
Backing it up is also a good idea even if he does wish to keep the same / home