[Discuss] UEFI

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Everything you list there (other than "etc., etc., etc) is under either
/etc or /var/named.
Backup both of those as well, and you've got all your config data.

I generally also run "rpm -qa > ~/ALL-INSTALLED-RPMS" before installing the
newest
Fedora or CentOS, so I retain a record of what packages had been installed
prior
to the upgrade.



On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Protip: put /home, /opt and /usr/local on dedicated partitions or
> volumes so
> > that you can reformat /, /boot, etc., without erasing user data and
> custom
> > software installs.
>
> But I would still  lose my DHCP, internal DNS, NFS, NTP, multiple user
> account passwords, printer configs, crontabs, etc., etc., etc.; if I
> did this.   Even though I only have a few machines, I don't run them
> as if they were single-user Internet browsing machines.
>
> > It is not possible to go the other way (GPT to MBR) without wiping and
> > reformatting the disk.
>
> Apparently not always true.   This guy apparently wrote GPT fdisk:
>
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
>
> and has a page which describes how to do it (when it is possible):
>
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html
>
> He also discusses using Hybrid MBR/GPT partitioning on other web pages
> as well as UEFI booting.   Looks like a good resource overall for
> this.
>
> Bill Bogstad
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