Preupgrade questions

Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 25 18:08:49 UTC 2011


On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:13:39 +0000 (UTC)
Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
> 	Even with F15 abandoning metacity, and possibly also whatever
> is causing the other minor issues, my guess is that I'll be better
> off doing all fresh installs this time, except perhaps on one brand
> new PC.. In fact, I'm already in process of copying all my data to an
> external USB hard drive.
> 
> 	I'm copying my home directory, /etc, /usr/bin (though
> not /bin), / usr/sbin, and /usr/share from each PC. Are those the
> ones I need? (Are any of them superfluous?)

/home (and /etc) should be everything you need. If you have installed
stuff locally, then backing up (or making a list of the stuff
in) /usr/local and /opt might be a good idea.

/usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/share are directories used by the
distribution's RPM packages. If you're not intending to backup the
installed system as well, then you should do a full backup.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org


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