On 11/29/2017 04:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:42:15PM +0000, Richard Zimmerman wrote:I'm pretty new to the Debian list hereWelcome aboard!but over on the CentOS list I'm on, migrating from init system to systemd isn't for the faint of heart as I understand it.There's more of a culture of upgrade rather than reinstall in Debian than in CentOS and family, in general. The systemd upgrade was handled very well and was seamless for most people; however, someone upgrading from such a long release ago is not something that will have been thoroughly tested and it's quite possible that an old init script that was modified (and therefore won't be replaced by package upgrades) could come along for the ride and cause problems.
I keep /opt on a separate partition. In have a subdirectory there as /opt/ric Next I copy -raf .mozilla there and then .thunderbird, Pictures, Videos, Documents, Downloads, Music, ...etc. just don't copy everything, as oy want fresh .config files when you install fresh. At install time, do not reformat your /opt partition. When you reboot into your fresh install, delete all those desktop directories and create links to your /opt directory locations. Now you can destroy your install root partition and be back up in business with minimal fuss. I've been doing this since the old Caldera days. Works a bloody charm.Ric
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