Re: Cleanest way to upgrade F7 to F9 (when the time comes)

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McGuffey, David C. wrote:
I'll tidy up all the Windoze files onto the drive shared by samba,
dismount it, save any other data to the USB disk, and do a DVD upgrade.
If something goes wrong, I'll have the data to restore.

There is actually plenty of space on the samba share (an ex3 partition),
that I may just tar the user and config data I want to save there, and
not worry about the USB disk.
I have previously forgotten about databases for mysql that get stored in /var/ {eg mythtv} . I should have dumped the db and put it elsewhere before telling the installer to format my /. Other stuff like web site html etc also live there, so you might not want to format that part of the disk like I did.

Take a package list:
rpm -qa >rpm-qa.txt so that it is easier to get back your faves if something goes wrong

rpm -Va >rpm-Va.txt since that indicates files that differ from the installed rpm, and therefore picks up many of the config files that have been changed. {Not all because some configs are separate files that happen to be in a config directory}.

DT

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