On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
Probably a dumb one, but...
I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /,
since /etc is located there?
In other words, is anything on /usr or /var touched during this update?
If you want to be reeaallyyy safe, and want an image and not a backup,
grab the latest copy of SystemRescueCd, a couple of TB of usb external
drive space, which is very cheap these days, and use partImage to grab a
true image of your whole system. I started doing this recently and it's
saved me once so far. Things "flew apart big time" for me recently, a
disk failure, I rebooted into the rescue cd and hey presto, 30 minutes
later, everything was good.
Andrew
