EOL???

Shu Shang yzshangs at 126.com
Thu Sep 23 08:31:53 UTC 2021


You should definitely test it before though. Or make a backup.

On 9/23/21 16:18, Colin Law wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 22:50, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ..
>> The best path is, if you were wise and kept /home on a separate
>> partition, to install a new version and use the same /home filesystem.
>>
>> If you didn't, well, you _could_ move it, but that is hard.
> 
> If /home is in the / partition rather than a partition of its own
> then, when installing the new version, tell it which partition to use
> for / but tell it *not* to format it.  Then it should leave /home as
> is, only overwriting the system stuff.  At least that has worked for
> me in the past doing an install over another version.  I don't see why
> it should not work just as well when changing from 32 to 64 bit.
> 
> Obviously make sure that your upgrades are up to date (and tested)
> before doing anything like this.
> 
> Colin
> 

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