preserving partitions during reinstall

[Dave Mitchell]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:04:05AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I am not sure why you could not do what you want to do with a variation
> of the following process. tar up the partition you want to save before
> you install the new version. Then after installation restore the saved
> material using tar -k to the appropriate new partition.

This (or something similar) is what I ended up doing.
My question to the list was how to avoid having to do that in future.
Which no-one's managed to answer yet.

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