Tim: > > I tended to do system updates (e.g. move from Fedora 33 to 34) by > > unplugging the old drive, installing a new system onto a spare drive. > > Getting it working, experimented around with it in a safe environment > > where no file was important. Reinstall if I fouled it up, though I > > think I only did that once in the Windows days. Then I'd plug the old > > drive in, and import the old data. Unplug the old drive, and have it > > on the shelf as the next spare. > > > > That was my simple and safe way to upgrade.
home user: > Different! > Thank-you for the idea. Your welcome. I also used it as an opportunity to cull out various things that didn't need keeping. And properly file things in a coherent way that just got dumped somewhere on the drive. Back in my Amiga days, I used to download files from the internet into the trash folder. If I actually needed to keep them, I'd move them. But temporary downloads were already sitting in a place set aside for disposal. On that OS, the trash folder was as usable as any other folder, there just happened to be a convenient function to empty it on demand. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
