I have a machine currently running 4.6 and want to upgrade to 4.8. I know you shouldn't skip releases for upgrades, so I'm planning on wiping and installing.
Problem is I have some important data on a softraid partition. The root disk is just an IDE drive (wd0), and the softraid partition is a RAID 1 setup of two separate disks (wd1 and wd2). Can I safely wipe everything on the root disk, install 4.8, and just mount the softraid partition?