Why are you thinking of starting from scratch? (Yes it is a good isea to back up regulalry, esp before a major upgrade, but you should be able to upgrade ratther than start from scratch)
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:50:00 +1200 Roger Searle wrote: > Well it looks like tonight is a possibility for upgrading to suse 9.3. > While I am essentially happy with setting up from scratch there are a > few files I want to back up first, here's all I can think of: fstab, > firefox bookmarks, and thunderbird address book. And I would probably > make a copy of my home folder just in case. > > Am I missing something major that I don't know about? Is this a good > opportunity to be looking/doing other things too? I thought about the > partition sizes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> sudo df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb7 8.4G 3.8G 4.2G 48% / > tmpfs 252M 40K 252M 1% /dev/shm > /dev/hda1 28G 8.7G 19G 32% /windows/C > /dev/hdb1 23G 23G 107M 100% /windows/E > /dev/hda5 30G 16G 14G 53% /windows/D > /dev/hda6 32G 8.0G 24G 26% /windows/F > /dev/hda7 32G 9.1G 23G 29% /windows/G > /dev/hda8 30G 7.2G 23G 25% /windows/H > Apart from the windows drives, is this saying that the linux install is > just on hdb7 and tmpfs? Should I refine this scheme? Is the swap file > tmpfs? There's actually twice that much ram on this machine, I > thought. (maybe i need to run memtest). > > All my data and email exist on a separate drive (which will themselves > be backed up first) so I don't need to worry about that. > > Any comments would be welcome. > > Cheers, > Roger -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
