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Re: [LUG] Re-Install ??
> Neil Stone wrote:
>
> How many times have people had to re-install.. from scrach a linux
> system.. i have only ever had to once... i installed RedHat 5.1.. it
> broke /etc/passwd !!! oops.. generally unrecoverable !!!
On my own desktop box:
When the disk broke.
When upgrading from an old Slackware to a new Redhat distro.
I reinstalled going from Redhat 5 to 6, but I think it may have been
optional, the disk is partitions so that /home is seperate from the OS.
Deleting /etc/passwd unrecoverable - I doubt it - isn't on any other
Unix I've used unless you deliberately lock them down.
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