Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Hartmut Meyer <hartmut.meyer@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2003 21:04 schrieb Brett A. Taylor:

> Thanks. I thought it sounded right and it would work, but I wanted to
> check. Nobody wants to lose /home!

And for this very reason you should have a backup copy of your /home data. 
Just in case.

This advice has nothing to do with your existing installation beeing Mandrake 
and/or your new installation beeing SUSE LINUX.

Things (can) go wrong. And you would be very sorry ...


Greetings from Bremen
hartmut

P.S. Sounds very reasonable, doesn't it? Have I ever followed such advise 
myself? No. Have I suffered? Sure (but likely not enough to not do it 
again) ...