Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 24 April 2009 05:04:15 am Stan Goodman wrote:
...
> 2) Working from the existing v10.3, I would install ext3 on the home 
> partition and mount that partition v10.3.

New created ext3 mounted on /home will mask existing files, so you want to 
mount it to /mnt or any other directory created for that purpose. 

> 3) As though I were backing up the v10.3 home partition, I simply copy it
> in toto to the partition newly made to be the v11.1 home partition.
>
> 4) Finally I install v11.1 on the root partition prepared for it, defining
> the newly populated partition as it /home, and instruct that this /home
> partition not be formatted.
>
> To me, this looks like the perfect way to proceed, and it should leave me
> with a new system very much like the old one, although there would no
> doubt be a few apps that need to be replaced. Is there any problem with
> this? Have I overlooked something?

From safety point of view it is OK. 

From usage point it is a hassle. 
All your communication and bookmarks will be obsolete very soon, so if you 
need to go back you will miss all new stuff. 

Although, I don't think that you will go back without major breakage in anew 
system. In that case some obsolete communication stuff is of no concern 
anyway. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko
http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/

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