I have a old-fashioned battery charger from Varta (type 57 037 091 101) that doesn't switch off the current when the batteries are fully charged. Unfortunately this is the only charger I have e.g for D size batteries (also called mono batteries). The charger lists the necessary charging times for different types of batteries on its back side.
tar cvf backupfile.tar .[a-zA-Z0-9]*Any better ideas? This command requires that the dot is followed by an alphanumerical character. Which is usually the case for the hidden files in the user's home folder.
The .0 to .1 update suggests, that it's not a big deal. In fact, it is. Many things do brake and most people advise to do a clean install of 9.1. Because of extensive third party installations and customization I wanted to upgrade. In case the upgrade appeared unusable, I wanted to have the possibility to go back to 9.0. This appeared easily possible because we had a free 8.6 GB partition (hdb3) on the harddisk. Actually it was not free, but it was the root partition of our RedHat 9 installation. I did the following things: