John E. Perry wrote:
Just two problems: first, I took others' advice again to switch from Reiser to ext3fs, but my home directory is too big to get onto cd's or dvd's, so I now have a system based on ext3fs except for the /home directory, which is still Reiser. I'm digging through the home directories so I can divide it onto several dvds, but it's going to take a while.
Since you're blowing away most of the system anyway, why not just create a new ext3 partition and copy /home to it. Then, when you install the new system, just mount that ext3 partition as /home. You can use a rescue CD to create the new partition and copy /home. Incidentally, you may want to invest in an external USB hard drive. They're cheap these days and can hold a lot of data. I've got one here that's 160 GB. It currently contains a couple of generations of backup from two computers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org