On 13 November 2010 19:32, <bod...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Config files shouldn't be an issue. Any half-decent program will sanity check > its config files and recreate them if the current ones are > incompatible/corrupt. >
Define half-decent. On upgrading from one release to another many popular programs which we ship _by_ _default_ will irreversibly modify their config. Yes, deleting the config is one way out, but that's not ideal. > Is the not formatting /home a new feature? If its not set up as a seperate > partition, then it is just mounted under / which gets formatted on install No, it's been around for a good few releases now. I've been whittering on about this feature for ages, but people clearly still don't know about it. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
