<div>04 Mar 2008 09:48:04 -0500, DJ Delorie <<a href="mailto:dj@delorie.com">dj@delorie.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> What I've taken to doing is booting a rescue CD, creating a top-level "/old-system" directory, and moving all the top-level directories (including mount points etc) into it. That leaves me with a disk that is clean enough to do a fresh install on without needing a format, and when the install is done, all my old directories and files can be mv'd back into place as needed.</blockquote></div> Yep, that sounds like what Richard wrote, and given that for you two worked fine, I think I'm going to do the same. Just moving /home/user to /backup (since I only want to keep the home) Should I cp -r /home/user or mv /home/user to /backup I guess that it's "mv" right? Just want to be sure before doing all :-) Thank you very much C