On Sunday 11 May 2003 02:56, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Bob S. (usr@sanctum.com) [030510 23:53]: ->Hi SuSE folks, -> ->Just received my SuSE 8.2 distro. Planning on an upgrade. Want to do ->a new install because I want to change partition sizes and ->loacations, ...................<snip a buncha stuff>...............
Why not tar up your home directory instead of all of /home?
Log in as root and cd in /home then "tar cvf bob.tar bob" then copy the tar file over to the Windows partition. You can then copy it back over and just untar it..."tar -xvf bob.tar" into your new /home partition. :)
OK Ben, Thanks for the advice, but like O'Smith stated in a later post; I am not sure I want to just restore/overwrite my entire home directories. ( 3 users). Afraid I might break something from the new install. Would rather pick & choose what I want to put back. eg: I have a really old intall of OO (build 641 I think) that I would NOT want to reinstall/overwrite. You stated in a later post to O'Smith that you used to untar to /tmp. I think that is what I would prefer to do even though it is a real PITA. Would you still tar it the same way as you sugested and then untar it to /tmp? Thanks, Bob S.
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