Joe, Thanks for your reply!
Joseph Braddock wrote: > Assuming you told the installer to format the partitions after you > re-assigned the names, it should have done just that. Yes, but my understanding of a Linux format is that it is very fast, and my assumption is that it is very fast it because it does not overwrite all the old data. (I don't know for sure what Dos/Windows does, but I know there is a "quick format" and a regular format, and the quick does something that definitely does not overwrite all the old data (not sure whether the old data is readable afterwards or not). > If what you were > having problems with related to configuration files in your home directory, > then when you logged in, you would have received the same home directory and > configuration files you had before. Thanks for reminding me of that, but I don't think that was relevant in my cases, because, in the end, I usually kept my old /home directory. There have been times (not usually at installation) where I've intentionally wiped out, for example, the .kde confiiguration files to fix a problem. > What I do before a new install on an > existing installation is rename my old home directories to something else. > That way when I create the users again, they get fresh configuration files. > I then assign rights to the "old" directories and can move anything back that > I want. That's a good idea that I can use if the case arises. Thanks again! Randy Kramer
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