Upgrading from FC4 to Kubuntu???

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

Maybe I should clarify.  I use a separate /home partition.  I just typed
too fast.  It should have read: "This is exactly why I keep a separate
partition for /home directory."


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	From: Oren Beck  
	Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:03 PM
	To: Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
	Cc: KCLUG at kclug.org
	Subject: Re: Upgrading from FC4 to Kubuntu???
	
	


	On 1/4/07, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO <> wrote: 

		This is exactly why I keep a separate /home directory.
You can always
		slap it in another system and copy it over or wipe the
other partitions
		and reinstall and all your crap is still there.  Some of
your dot files 
		may need to be deleted, but should still work with newer
program
		versions.  You shouldn't need /var unless you put stuff
like your
		website in there or files for FTP or mail files.  Since
I use web mail
		and have FTP directory on another drive that is not a
problem.  I only 
		save /home before a new system load.  And I do back that
up prior to
		reload, usually.  I've only had to save it from the dead
once by
		breathing life back into the partition table, but then I
like a good
		resurrection every now and then. 
		
		



	This is getting plugged in here at a later date due to sober
deliberation.
	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? 
	
	Would not having "your data" safe on a totally separate 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" 
	
	Or am I far wrong?
	 

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