Am Mit, 26 Jul 2000 schriebst Du:
> Hi Chris
> What I
> would like to do somehow is to backup say all of
>
> /usr
>
> and then just plonk it down on the new machine. I would like to do
> this with all the other file systems as well(which are not really other
> file systems at the moment), ie
>
> /opt
> /bin
> /lib
> /sbin
> /var(?)
>
>
> Thoughts
Here they are, Antony:
I advise against keeping /usr, /lib (that's /usr/lib, isn't it?), /bin and
/sbin from your old system. If you're not very careful and almost
pathologically clean about your filesystems, too much crud accumulates. See it
as a chance to get a fresh start. By all means keep /home, and I keep tarballs
of downloaded software under /home/$USERNAME/downloaded, so they're kept too.
Lawson had a neat one-liner using tar to pipe what you want to keep over to
another partition and later back, but I didn't keep it. Perhaps he wouldn't
mind posting it again, or search for it in the archives at linuxlearn.org .
>
> cheers
>
The Queen.
Christoph
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