<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO</b> <<a href="mailto:brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov">brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is exactly why I keep a separate /home directory. You can always<br>slap it in another system and copy it over or wipe the other partitions<br>and reinstall and all your crap is still there. Some of your dot files
<br>may need to be deleted, but should still work with newer program<br>versions. You shouldn't need /var unless you put stuff like your<br>website in there or files for FTP or mail files. Since I use web mail<br>and have FTP directory on another drive that is not a problem. I only
<br>save /home before a new system load. And I do back that up prior to<br>reload, usually. I've only had to save it from the dead once by<br>breathing life back into the partition table, but then I like a good<br>resurrection every now and then.
<br><br><br>>-----Original Message-----<br>>From: On Behalf Of Jon Moss<br><br>><br>>Since Fedora Legacy Project has gone belly up, I've been<br>>rethinking what to do with the workstation my daughter (a high
<br>>school senior soon to be college<br>>student) uses. It currently has FC4 installed. I'd like to<br>>move her to Ubuntu (specifically kubuntu because she likes<br>>KDE) but I'm not sure if I can "upgrade" to it from FC4. I'm
<br>>going to backup all of her files and photos to a CD or DVD,<br>>but I'm afraid I'm going to miss something (and I'd rather not<br>>back up the entire hard drive if I don't have to since the OS
<br>>or distro won't matter any longer).<br>><br>>Has anyone ever done this? Upgrade from one distro to another?<br>><br>>Or do I have to just wipe the hard drive and start from<br>>scratch (like I would if it had Windows XP installed)?
<br>><br>>Happy New Year!<br>><br>>Jon Moss<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kclug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kclug@kclug.org">Kclug@kclug.org</a><br><a href="http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug">
http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>This is getting plugged in here at a later date due to sober deliberation.<br>I am going to raise a proposal here that will also be used to begin a different thread- but is quite on topic here. If one is doing a migration from one distro to another that seems a good point in time to add a "userdata" drive. My admittedly painful lack of detailed "how to" not being of issue here, What's involved in copying /home, /var and anything else liable to have unique "userdata" in it to a new drive, and setting partitions to have the physical location/s be keeping OS on one drive and "your data" on another drive?
<br><br>Would not having "your data" safe on a totally seperate device lower the worry factor of migrations? And it would seem that Gentoo power users doing frequent emerge updates would have lower risk of losing "their data"
<br><br>Or am I far wrong?<br><br>