On Saturday 15 October 2005 08:56, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> That said, I've managed to do this on a few occasions to preserve the
> /home partition without incidident.
I'm not going to say that I recommend it, but I've kept the same /home since
pre-RHL6.0 days, doing a mix of scratch reinstalls, upgrades, and going
through three laptops to the one I'm using now. Started on a Toshiba
Satellite 225CDS, went to a Toshiba Satellite 265, then to a Sony VIAO
FXA-49, and now on a Dell Inspiron 600m. That includes several Ghost
sessions and a couple of dd's to go between harddrives.
The reason I say I don't necessarily recommend it is that housekeeping in
a /home that old involves lots of DIY repairs... :-) Particularly when I
started out using Netscape Mail back in 5.x days, and migrated to kmail once
Red Hat saw the KDE light and have upgraded my ~/Mail since the very first
kmail release. So I have a mutt of mbox and maildirs, with some messages
quite old (that I brought over from Netscape; I even migrated from Windows
95's Netscape Mail, so I have e-mail in the system from 1996).
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