Tim: >> Brute force and ignorance is a tried and tested method. Trying to be >> clever with boot menus, and carefully selecting specific partitions >> while installing, often goes awry. Not to mention the times you come >> across an installer that only wants to do a full takeover of your >> install drive and nuke everything that was on it.
Joe Zeff: > In all the years I've been doing this I've never had it fail with a > Fedora re-installation. Of course, I always have a full backup of /home > before I upgrade or re-install, JIK. Me neither, but better safe than sorry. I hate having to deal with back-ups, it's time-consuming. Things can go wrong with them too, like what my web host did: Backed-up and restored my site's files without telling me (they were probably doing some maintenance on their gear the first time, the second time they were flailing around in the dark after they'd destroyed their perl installation). Every file had their permissions fouled up. Twice, now, I've had to un-munge about 1500 files. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.108.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 25 16:17:31 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
