Re: FC3 -> FC4 Fresh install, keeping /home - DONE
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:15 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 8:47 AM -0500 7/31/05, akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 05:05:09AM -0400, David Niemi wrote:
>>> Finally going to bite the bullet and update my main machine, one
>>> question though.
> Also back up /etc. You might need it if settings get munged, to
have
> something to compare with.
>
> There's probably some other important directories, but I haven't done this
> yet myself, so I don't have the benefit of (harsh) experience.
/var/spool/mail if you receive mail on the machine. /var/spool/mqueue if
your outgoing mail queue hasn't been cleared. Possibly some other /var
subdirs, but check them and consider which ones have info about services
you use.
Thanks for all the responses, and sorry that I haven't followed up. I
kept /etc and /home copying the directories to 2 other partitions that I
wasn't going to touch using the "cp -p -r" to ensure I kept the
ownerships and permissions. there was nothing really in the /var/spool
or other directories that I couldn't live without.
due to other issues with the system I reformatted /home and after
recreating the user I copied back the required files and directories as
the user BEFORE running anything. I first tried it as root dragging and
dropping the files but the ownerships and permissions changed, silly me.