On 05/21/2015 01:23 PM, jdd wrote:
Le 21/05/2015 16:55, Fr David Ousley a écrit :
I'd like to upgrade from 12.3 to 13.2. I was assuming a clean install, but I would like to retain my current /home partition rather than have to restore everything from backups. I cannot do an upgrade to 13.1 or 13.2 because the /boot partition is too small.
/boot, really? anyway you should give us the result of fdisk -l for all disks
+1 In the past, Felix has recommended partitioning the disk BEFORE using the installer. This is something I have found to be most effective for upgrades and for new installs. :-)
The 13.2 installer will do so, but only to
install the / partition on the SSD, which (if I understand its proposal) would put everything including /home on the SSD.
the installer let you do exactly what you want, it only needs to find the right menu entry (not always obvious in the installer partitionning page, the three options are confusing for me).
Indeed they can be. Some of it comes with familiarity, some of it comes with "lets ignore all that and go with completely customising the way I want and ignore everything the installer tries to do for me". Which gets back to preconfiguring the partitioning and of course -- you knew this was coming didn't you? -- using LVM. Oh, yes, the installer knows about LVM :-)
I guess it's not /boot that have problem, but / (root).
it goes hand in hand when you're not using LVM and having to provision space with hard boundaries. What you use for /boot has to come from somewhere and that's all to often /. Hmm. You might think about stealing from SWAP . You might also think about stealing from /home if you have a file system which can be shrunk.
What I do personally is to keep /home with /, because any system have it's own setup for applications and so you need at least one /home for each install. Then I move most of my data to a /data partition, shared between all installs.
If you don't have a *very* large / (around 100Gb), do not use BTRFS but keep ext4 for /
+1 to that. In fact unless you're experienced as a sysadmin I'd leave off BtrFS for a while.
ssd is fine for /
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