Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> Also there are some have found a solution to that with "maintainance"
> mode to chich you boot into... and that ideas are also being refined
> in this thread.
Ok, here's an idea: Don't format / when you reinstall. There's a number
of ways you can do this:
1) Use the upgrade option.
Is that supported?
2) Have anaconda selectively rm -rf, leaving directories like /home,
/var/lib/xen and so forth alone.
That could be a reasonable option.
3) Use LVM/Ext3 resizing to salvage /home when doing the format.
4) Have a backup system that you can restore from.
A backup isn't really a backup if it becomes your only copy as you erase
the real thing.
> I agree that there are technical challenges to overcome and my
vote is
> always to try to overcome then than to leave them unresolved.
Adding another partition will create social and technical challenges-
more than it solves.
Is there any historical evidence for this? Surely there have been
unix-like systems that have defaulted to a different partitioning scheme
before. And certainly some that performed version upgrades without
reformatting.
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