which files to copy before a fresh install?
 

I have another thread about re-installing Fedora when I get a new hard drive. I'm going to use it as an opportunity to try and limit the programs I have installed (so upgrades will be less time-consuming) so I don't need any of those commands to make yum install what I had installed before. Also, /home is on its own hard drive so I don't to worry about anything explicitly residing in my home directory.

But I want to make sure I copy over configs and other files I may be forgetting.

Here's my current list:

• fstab
• crontab files
• QMC2 puts some files on /
• Xorg conf? I don't think that's used anymore
• Crashplan files? (need to at least make some screenshots of current configs)
• NFS shares (if any)
• Any crypto stuff in /? Or is the important stuff (like GPG sigs) only in my /home dir?

I always forget things when I upgrade so I make a tar of /etc and /var/named to get all the conf files then refer to as needed.

Directories:

• /etc/ssh/ - has your keys so you don't have to edit the "known_keys" everywhere
• /var/named/ - if you have a local DNS server
• /etc/sysconfig/ - all the stuff you set up at install time, firewall rules
• /etc/mail/ - sendmail configuration

Files:

• /etc/rsyslog.conf - so you don't have to figure out how to turn off all that logging again
• /etc/aliases - who gets root's mail
• /etc/mdadm.conf - RAID setup

Thanks! I think at least some of those will apply to me!

Adding some more for anyone coming here by Google:

• /etc/yum.repos.d
• (specific to me) settings to make sure locate doesn't index my btrfs snapshots