On Sun, 2025-09-21 at 22:11 +0000, Joe Average wrote: > What I do: > > my experiences are I'm better off to install new then to restore the hole disk > > Advantages: > - removes old cruft collected via several updates > - No need to time consuming figure out what links and right are set under > e.g. /etc/ /usr > - and since my drive is an SSD I'm able to secure erase it, before a new > install (should speed up the SSD)
Depending on the method, that would be more wearing on the drive. Though I wonder how significant it would be. In the HDD days it was considered good exercise for the drive's health to read every bit on it and write it back (by some people). There were tools that did just that. And on another computer, I do video editing which always involves a lot of data going into the drive and getting removed shortly after. If a drive was used in an encrypted mode, then reusing your drive with a simple quick format ought to be enough that the new use of it can't read any former data, just pseudo-random bits. I'm thinking of reading mistakes here, not deliberate attempts at data recovery. Every kind of security feature has its limits. > In all configs I edited e.g. under /etc I insert a comment (# > my_user_name) so I could easily find them via "sudo fgrep -Ri > my_user_name /etc/" > All these files are backuped by hand, every time I change same > (currently ~12 files) I do something similar. If I customise a configuration file, I usually kept a copy of the original, though this becomes a bit messy when configuration files are in a conf.d folder where every file in there is read to configure the software, rather than one file with a specific name. You need an out- of-the-tree archive location. And I often wrote "changed by me" right next to something I've altered in a small way. Larger alterations, or things that required a lot of experimentation, also get explanatory notes. -- 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
