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.
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. Same for email service, fax, and few others. Logs may be important. Directory /srv is where apache data lives, or ftp... There may be others. Tinyftp, if I got the name right, wanted to use a directory directly on the root. Sometimes keeping just home intact doesn't save your day ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)