James Knott wrote:
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.
THat's a possibility, but I'm already nervous about monkeying with partitions that have valuable data on them. And the / crash last week reinforces my nervousness.
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.
Hmm. I blew off the tiny, hyperexpensive usb drives a couple of years ago, but haven't looked at them recently. That could work well. I had been reading up on nfs, thinking about connecting it to my laptop and using it to back up my data. I also made a quick try to get ftp working, but didn't succeed immediately, and never got back to it. -- John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org