On 04/23/2014 02:07 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-04-23 16:09, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/23/2014 08:59 AM, Benjamin Draxlbauer wrote:
The 'leaving all the installed stuff' is not really an option. The best you might hope for is, in Repair/chroot mode, to use zypper to reinstall various packages, but you will need to now which ones. The 'it took a long time to set it up the way it is now' raises a few ironic laughs, doesn't it?
Yes, one has to re-install several times at some point in order to learn how to do do things. We all did at some point, or else we had someone looking just over our shoulders to take over.
Install-wipe-install-wipe-install-wipe. At least with LVM parts of that got a lot easier, one reason for the cycle, determining how small a partition could be and still fit the system in so as to maximise the data partition, back in the SCO UNIX days of 10G drives, no longer applied.
In reality, all the key system config lives under /etc. Well, OK there may be a few maverick subsystems that fail to follow that convention, but I can't think of any at the moment, not any I use but YMMV. In the past I've reconstructed systems by copying from a backup of /etc.
Yes, but... databases use to live somewhere under /var.
So they did, but I said that config lives under /etc.
Same for email service, fax, and few others. Logs may be important.
One a new install?
Directory /srv is where apache data lives, or ftp... There may be others.
Yes, but that's data. In my opinion /srv should be on its won partition just like /home, and should survive re-installation just the same way /home does. YMMV however.
Tinyftp, if I got the name right, wanted to use a directory directly on the root.
I think you mean that while its necessary its not always sufficient. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org