On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 03:52:27PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> Looking at my (self-written) backup utility, I find this
> comment.
>

>     do not overwrite when porting to another machine

>

>     /etc/fstab

Clobbering fstab might result in the boot process grinding to a halt,
because file systems don't get mounted.

>     /etc/modules/

This is a file, not a directory. Clobbering modules might result in a
system without some functioning hardware. I'd add /etc/modprobe.d/ too.

>     /boot 

Clobbering /boot would likely result in a unbootable system.

>     /etc/lilo.conf

I think most machines use grub2 these days. So, I would replace that
with /etc/grub.d/, /etc/default/grub, and the rest of grub is in /boot.

>
> Do you have any comments, suggestions about what all
> to avoid clobbering?

I think the above should cover what to keep.

Greg


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