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. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro