[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading

[bodsda at googlemail.com]

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.

And even if they don't, deleting the newer config file will resolve any issues.

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

Bodsda
------Original Message------
From: Alan Pope
To: bodsda at googlemail.com
To: Ubuntu-Uk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading
Sent: 13 Nov 2010 18:17

On 13 November 2010 17:20,  <bodsda at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Your probably aware of this, but if you can set up a seperate partition for your /home, this saves an immense amount of backup time when reinstalling as you can choose (advanced mode) to only format the / and just mount the old /home
>

Not necessary. You can install over the top and retain the home
directory without it being a separate partition.

However I'm not sure I'd do that given you are going backwards. It's
possible that configuration files in your home directory will have
been 'upgraded' to support new releases of applications you use, and
going backwards might not be possible for those applications.

Perhaps you could figure out what's wrong with 10.10 and look for /
file bugs. I'm sure the list would be happy to help you with that.

Al.

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