> >>>> where no such issue exists. > >>> Well, much of the concerns about upgrading/reinstalling are about "losing data". I have always had a separate /home partition and just mounted it unformatted and never noticed a difference from one install to the other (since the days of Fedora Core 1). If you do not have a separate mount, installing does involve a huge amount of time. Hence the suggestion for default behaviour above. > >>> > >>> Ranjan > >>> > >>> > >> Har! > >> Losing which data?? > >> fedup has not been know to destroy any "precious" data. > >> Likewise, "fedown" !! > > Well, I was talking about reinstalling. There is no fedup for that. Folks like the OP on F17 can not fedup (and have to reinstall for an upgrade) from what I understood. > > > > Ranjan > > > My thread said nothing about reinstalling. Well, I was assuming that all this bubbled up in the context of the OP on another thread running F17 and not wanting to upgrade (which for him is really a reinstall). In any case, my suggested approach would help even when you are upgrading or performing the non-existent downgrade -- because that is not failsafe, and if things fail, often installing afresh is the only option. That said, I am not disavowing the importance of backups. Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
