Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:00, Osho GG wrote:
OK, but what wlll I do if I don't have /home on a different partition?
Back it up to CD's, and hopefully you will make a separate /home partition on the new install. I did something like that during the last upgrade cycle, except I bought a new hd for the Linux partition, and then copied old /home/<user> dirs over to it. BTW don't forget to chown the <user> dirs to the appropriate <user>, it works better that way. :)
If you're upgrading and repartitioning, one thing you might consider, is moving /home to the old swap partition, if of suitable size. To do that, boot a rescue disk and convert the swap partition to your desired file system and then copy over /home. Then during the install, create another swap and add the new /home to the system. However, it's still a good idea to make backups, even if you're not upgrading. I backup my ThinkPad to tar files on my desktop system and then do a full image copy of my desktop hard drive to an identical drive, mounted in a removable tray. I also back up my home directory to a CD-RW.