linux guy writes:
« HTML content follows »Sorry, I've been using Redhat/Fedora for 20 years. Never once lost data like this. This is bad programming, period !
I partially agree. I've been updating since Fedora Core 4, and I never needed to make a backup of anything.
I think this goes down to a practical point. I wouldn't be comfortable pointing any tool to any directory, ostensibly for the purpose of letting the tool use it for its internal purposes, where I had important data.
At the very least I would create an empty subdirectory there, and point the tool there. This removes all ambiguity in my mind.
Especially in this case: I know that after a system-upgrade the download directory gets automatically wiped. I'm keenly aware of it, I have several machines to update, and after the initial download I make a copy of the /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade directory to the next machine before starting this one's upgrade, to avoid having to redownload all this stuff. If I don't do that, it gets wiped and everything needs to get downloaded again.
I would be quite nervous at repointing this to /home, that's too close to comfort.
I wouldn't even repoint anything. If this partition was full I'd just replace /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade with a symbolic link to an empty directory on another partition, and don't change a thing for the download and the reboot.
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