On Friday 28 October 2005 11:17, Robin Laing wrote: > 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 Another thing you might consider, in addition to a separate /home partition, is to have another partition where you can back up things like a copy of /etc (so you can look at what you had for configs), downloaded rpms & programs from sites that are not Fedora and anything else you want to save. As above, just make sure that you don't format it. Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 2,010 US soldiers dead. Welcome back to Vietnam
