On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:18:57AM -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Ever since I've upgraded my friend's pc (from rh9 to fc3), the pc has > been experiencing wierd problems. I would like to chuck it all, except > for the stuff I should keep. > > I figure I should keep /home, but what else? > > Now, just for the sake of argument, let's say that I'm keeping only > "/home" and "/stuff". Should I first wipe the drive, do the fresh > install, and *then* dump /home and /stuff back in? Or should I dump > them back in *before* doing the fresh install. >
Unfortunately, I find for myself that /etc and /var are a mixed bag of stuff I need and stuff I want to write over. I cope with /etc (not well) by keeping .../RCS archives of key files. It's a pain because they're in different subdirectories. I take some key files (like hand rolled X config files) off to floppy and put that in my machine envelope. I frequently rail against the shoddy situation in /var. It still enrages me when applications use it for the location of data bases that I need. If it were up to me, I wouldn't allow anything in /var but spools, logs, temp files, and data bases that are local to the installation, like the RPM data base and the locate data base. But that ain't so, so explore /var before purging. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
