default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Brendan Conoboy]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> And is this documented as being supported?

Supported?  Beats me.  It's certainly documented:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/ch-upgrading-system.html

> A tool like this might be the friendliest long term solution if you 
> could design something that would do a backup of your existing system to 
> an external drive or a network destination in a format that could either 
> be used to restore the existing system or as the source for migrating 
> users, data, and non-packaged applications (i.e. your /opt and 
> /usr/local/) back into a freshly installed  newer version.  That would 
> require some additional space somewhere but could be pretty flexible and 
> would eliminate any partitioning dependencies.

Sounds good to me.  Not sure that this resolves the original poster's 
situation/suggestion though.

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com