[clug] Reinstall and reformat?

Sam Couter sam at couter.dropbear.id.au
Fri Mar 19 11:24:38 GMT 2004


Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at openminddev.net> wrote:
> Well, personally I reformat everything except /home and /usr/local when doing 
> that kind of upgrade, so I know that nothing from the old version is left 
> hanging around.

I just apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade without worrying about
what's stored where, which partitions are formatted, etc.

Reformatting is for Windows systems. Silly rabbit.
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