John E. Perry wrote:
jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
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And to sum up once again ( I guess repetitition does nothing for some people) DO NOT UPGRADE that way.. create a separate /home area which you almost never will have to touch again. And then install every new version you get onto a clean drive. It weeds out the cr@p you install just fooling around.
I can vouch for this advice. I did this a couple of years ago, and every update since 9.2 has left my home directory intact and fully usable.
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.
Second, I keep finding stuff I really don't want to dump, even though I haven't looked at it in years. And may never look at again. So, converting my home partition over to ext3fs may take a long time, if I ever done. I just hope the deep bugs on this list keep talking about in Reiser don't come to my system.
How big *is* your /home directory?! :-) And how big is your / partition where Suse is intstalled? Surely it must be big enough and with enough space left for you to copy your current /home directory to / then format your current /home partition in ext3 and then it copy back from / . No, this can't be done? Cheers. -- In a period of great joy and pleasure you are comforted by the thought that tragedy is just around the corner. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org