-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2013-10-02 at 11:10 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-10-02 16:39 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
The issue with one partition of any type (no /home) is that you can not reinstall the system, typically with a new release, because it means reformatting home and loosing your data.
Technically incorrect, except WRT installers that refuse to let installation proceed without first formatting / (e.g. Fedora). One can boot something else, delete the package management data and the binaries (/bin/, /lib/, /run/, /sys/, /var/, etc.), but save /home/ and selected config files (in /etc/), then perform an installation. Reformatting / isn't necessary with openSUSE. Just be forewarned that leaving inappropriate files or config settings behind is is a formula for inexplicable and/or undesirable behavior in the new installation.
That's an interesting procedure... undocumented, though (at openSUSE). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJNrg0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WF/wCeJjIKFN4/EwDIfAaPx/P/pf++ abkAmgMBglSCj/fcuvENF8mLHIeSA+8j =RDWh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org