[Novalug] best way to back up a home partition.

Ben Creitz creitz at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 15:05:27 EDT 2007


On 9/20/07, Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:
> DonJr wrote:
> > Just wait until it UNINSTALLS the "auto" installed kernel-package you
> > are currently running, because it doesn't think that package is
> > "required" anymore.
> >  {-: It will happily do that and has recommended such incorrect actions
> > in the past. :-}
> >
>
> I wouldn't know, but I've heard that if you use aptitude from the
> beginning to manage all the packages things like that don't happen.

I use 'apt-get autoremove --purge' once in a while to keep clean.  It
hasn't made any crazy recommendations yet.

Ben


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