On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:30:35AM -0700, Blaise Pascal wrote: > Probably a stupid question, but I have to ask... > > Currently, I have RH 8.0 on my laptop, an IBM ThinkPad > T23 (I've had RH 8.0 on since early October). It's > been great, but I simply cannot resist the temptation > of trying something new. :) I want to install RH 9, > but I refuse to do upgrades on an existing system, so > I want to do a clean install. However, I would like to > keep my data. My partitions are set up like this: > > hda1: /boot, 100MB > hda2: /, about 9.9GB > hda3: /home, about 30GB > > (There is no swap. I have 1GB of RAM, and regardless > of whether it was a good idea or not to not include > swap, that was what I did. I could always set up a > swap file, I guess...) > > Like any good Linux user, I have the root account only > for administrative purposes, and a separate user > account for my data (call it user). The home directory > is, of course, /home/user. The question is this: if I > do a clean install of RH 9, reformatting the /boot and > / partition, and created the same account user, will I > still be able to access my data in /home/user? > > > Tha The answer is yes but you have to be careful. Ask the installer to mount /dev/hda3 as /oldhome and tell it not to format that partition. Then after installation what used to be in /home will be in /oldhome and you can copy it over or even better change the mount point of hda3 to /home once you are all installed. But do create a swap file. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
