On 08/03/2013 05:45 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 03.08.2013 07:32, Ahmed wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am thinking about converting my centos 6.3 32bit system to >> centos 6.4 64bit system. Please let me know what are the consequences >> of >> conducting this type of activity? > Ahmed, > > Do you want to do a live/"in place" migration to 64bit? If yes, I > recommend backing up and reinstalling from scratch or if you have a home > partition just let it be unformatted and your settings should be > preserved - most of the stuff in /home is arch-agnostic. > Yes, I want to do a live "in place" migration. My main concern is to preserve the home partition. I don't care about the software and rpm's. SO is it 100% safe to leave the home partition untouch during the installation will preserve the whole /home partition and data in it? Thank you so much for your support.