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Interview: Fedora developers Seth Vidal and Will Woods (Red Hat Magazine)

Interview: Fedora developers Seth Vidal and Will Woods (Red Hat Magazine)

Posted Apr 17, 2008 1:52 UTC (Thu) by djabsolut (guest, #12799)
In reply to: Interview: Fedora developers Seth Vidal and Will Woods (Red Hat Magazine) by tialaramex
Parent article: Interview: Fedora developers Seth Vidal and Will Woods (Red Hat Magazine)

If I remember correctly, the installer had/has an option to format partitions. My setup had "/" and "/home" as separate partitions. I allowed it to do what it liked with "/", but not with "/home" -- it went ahead and formatted "/home" anyway.


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Interview: Fedora developers Seth Vidal and Will Woods (Red Hat Magazine)

Posted Apr 17, 2008 6:12 UTC (Thu) by motk (subscriber, #51120) [Link]

That's interesting - I've been doing similar upgrades since fc3 (!) and have never had that
occur. That's not to say I blindly trust anaconda, I still make backups of $HOME!

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