On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote: > > I recognize that most of the comments were from sysadmins, more involved > in managing server farms, and steeped in that knowledge/experience base. And in upgrades, and thus have experience with the difference in effort and results.... And you still have yet to explain what you think the result of the extra hours of downloading and work has gained compared to a clean install and copying your data back. As far as I can see, it is a bunch of orphaned files, a wildly fragmented disk layout, and probably a less efficient filesystem. This is especially true since you mentioned having several disks, one probably large enough to hold a complete backup of the old system disk so you could easily pick out what you want back in the new install. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com