[Gloucs] Changing Operating systems.

[Tom Llewelyn]

Everything that's personal to you will be in your home directory.

So /home is a must.  I'd be wary of just blindly using a home directory on
multiple distros though - should be OK but version mismatches can sometimes
give strange results.

Any configs you have customised will be in /etc, so worth backing that up so
you can recover settings + configs if need be.

Logs and cached data live in /var.  Depends if you care about any of it.

Some 3rd party software installs in /opt  by default e.g. Oracle products

/root may have some useful info although unlikely on Ubuntu.

There may be the odd thing in /usr/local

Hope that helps

On 12 August 2011 20:29, GEOFF BAGLEY <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:

>
> I currently have a Ubuntu system running on my ASUS laptop,  but would like
> to replace the operating  system with Debian.
>
> I have a backing store on a 495GB external drive onto which I can save all
> my collected information.
>
> Which files (e.g. /home/* ) do I need to transfer to the external back-up
> drive,  so that the new OS can pick up the whole system ?
>
> Alternatives might have been  dual-boot,  or a virtual machine
> implementation,  though I currently have an inclination to dump Ubuntu in
> favour of Debian.
>
> Please does anyone have an opinion on this ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Geoff
>
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