Temlakos wrote:
In the "Why Fedora?" thread, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:21 -0400, David-Paul Niner wrote:
>
>> Fortunatly, in the Linux world, upgrading (for me
>>anyway), has always been a matter of nfs mounting a remote /home
>>directory. Obviously, the same could be achieved with a local drive
>>(and doing thorough backups!).
>
>
> Yes - that's what I do.
> Not NFS, though - just a separate /home partition.
> I back up my ssl certs etc. - then do a clean install but don't
> format /home
>
That's it? Just don't format /home, but format all other partitions?
(Could I perhaps get away without formatting /var/lib, if I break that
off as separate? I keep databases and home-built yum repos there.)
Can I manage that if I use Logical Volume Management?
And once I do that: do I then have to re-establish all user accounts in
the order in which I created them to begin with?
As an option, move your home brew stuff to the /home partition/drive
and then link to it.
A list of critical files would be really nice to rebuild a basic system.
I usually make a copy of my /etc directory when I do a new install.
--
Robin Laing
