Hi Gustin and Shawn, Thanks for the info.
Robin On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Carter wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > Well I followed the advice of Mark and Gustin and installed Debian 5.0 > > from scratch. As Gustin suggested I put everything on one big partition. > > Just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with multiple partitions, in > fact there are good reasons to things this way. Of course the problems > remains that you need to know what is going on and how to change or > resize things later. For a production machine I at the very least keep > /var in its own partition and or drive. > > > > I copied back /home/robin from my rdiff-backup area on my external HD, > > skipping any newer files. I also have back ups of /etc, /user and > > /var. Should I also copy these back to my HD? > > > /usr should not be copied. Reinstall your applications via aptitude. I > have a bunch of custom scripts that go into /usr/local/bin and > /usr/local/sbin and these directories (ie. everything in /usr/local) can > be copied without harm. > > There are something things in /var that move. VMWare by default keeps > the VMs in /var/lib/vmware, so that could be restored (you would have to > reinstall vmware). If you were migrating a mail server /var/spool might > be of interest, but in your case, for a desktop machine there is likely > nothing here of interest. > > There may be the odd config file in /etc/ that you may wish to restore > depending on what you had installed previously. Unless you know > otherwise, I would leave it alone. > > Hth, > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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