Finally going to bite the bullet and update my main machine, one question though. How will I have to handle existing user directories and information on the /home partition if I do a fresh install of FC4? What will happen when during the first run I have to create a user and this user's directories etc already exists? I am going to back up all the information to DVD anyway as well as leaving copies on other partitions. Also, will my raid0 drive (data drive) cause / be a problem?

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. >> >> How will I have to handle existing user directories and information on >> the /home partition if I do a fresh install of FC4? What will happen >> when during the first run I have to create a user and this user's >> directories etc already exists? I am going to back up all the >> information to DVD anyway as well as leaving copies on other partitions. >> >> Also, will my raid0 drive (data drive) cause / be a problem? >> > Back up all the critical directories, /home, /root and maybe /var if > you have mail there, into tar file/ Store the files somewhere where > they can be accessed later (a RW CD maybe). Install the new operating > system. Then untar the tar files using the -k option. This option > does not install files with the same name in the directory. Or untar > the tar file in /tmp and copy files from the old etc, for example, > that you want to retain. > > These two re-install methods will do the job. 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.

Back up all the critical directories, /home, /root and maybe /var