Quoting Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.com:
I seem to recall I had problems way back around 5.3 doing this. I disabled CCK I think it was and tables such as content_type_XYZ in my db were eliminated, together with the content in them. Am I remembering correctly?
Can't say if it's correct or not, but I don't actually change themes nor disable mods when I do a 'minor' update of core Drupal. It may be risky, but I have never had a problem. But yes, disabling some modules will IIRC remove tables and therefore data.
In D5 at least disabling modules does not remove tables. You have to use the Uninstall function for that and the module has to provide the hook.
Either way, always do the whole process on a spare site, or at the very least, backup your files and DB first. :)
Yes, always do a backup before changing your environment.
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