On 09/20/2014 03:18 PM, Martin Read wrote: > On 20/09/14 13:01, softwatt wrote: >> So, to sum it up: In my particular situation where I have a separate >> partition for /home/ , the best "upgrade" would be: >> >> 1. Installing a brand new Debian but leaving /home/<USER> intact. >> 2. Deleting all the config stuff with `rm -rf /home/<USER>/.[a-z0-9]*` >> 3. Done. >> >> Have I missed anything? > > 1a. *Back up* your dotfiles/dotdirs, just in case a program you use > stores configuration state in there which you *don't* want to discard or > manually rebuild when moving to the new version of Debian.
Alright. Perhaps a better "1a" would be to backup the entire /home just in case.
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