Luciano Mannucci a écrit :
My mileage has been a bit longer:
mine is even different :-) I noticed that most of the time I accumulate libraries from tested software and my disk grow... making a full backup is extremely long and I have no support big enough to make it really reliable (last time, with mondo/mindi, 15 cd's...) so: * I keep always my data in a separate partition. I can change this one by simply copying the data to/from an usb drive (not really a system backup) * so I simply reinstall the last distribution with the new parameters (new install, never update) and the datas are already there It's also a good moment to upgrade the harware :-) so you may see I _never_ backup the system. reinstall is always much faster than restoring, including the necessary customisation steps (given these one are correctly documented). When I can (quite always), I install the new system on a new partition and I keep the old one as long as I can, just to have at hand the various configuration text files that are sometimes difficult to do again jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org