On 08/03/2013 08:42 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 03.08.2013 14:35, Ahmed wrote: >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > During the installation make sure to choose "custom partitioning" and > leave the home partition unformatted. It's all pretty intuitive, you > just need to pay a bit of attention. > As always, backups are recommended no matter what. > Thank you so much. Have a nice day! Kind Regards.