On Jun 16, 2011, at 22:03 , Yasha Karant wrote:
> At this point, I must copy a whole number of directories to partitions/drives that do not need to be reformatted (e.g., /usr/local, /opt , /home that I keep in separate ext2 partitions) to preserve a number of utilities that I will then cp -pr (or tar) back to whatever SL 6 does.
None of those is safe to keep without reformatting. Why not stay with CentOS5 if preservation is a major objective?
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