Tom Brinkman wrote:
> I've never understood the desire to maintain a /home dir,
> specially thru future installs and upgrades. Using a stale old /home
> WILL 'lead to lots of problems' by introducing extraneous,
> deprecated, often maliciously conflicting (specially config) files
> into newer upgrades and/or versions. Keep a backup of /home,
> introduce personal files or customizations back in slowly, one at a
> time, watching for problems. It's the same basis as the reasons that
> fresh installs are always a safer bet than upgrades, any OS.
>From personal experience, I have to agree with Tom here. Everytime I've kept
my /home folder, and migrated/upgraded to a newer Mandrake version, I've had
problems...that were always fixed by backing up all my important stuff, and
doing a full and clean install, including formatting -all- my 'Nix partitions.
Like Tom said, YMMV... ;-)
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